In agriculture of the future there will be a rapidly increasing claim for agricultural products, due to a growing world population and raised living standards. Scientists predict that world population will explode up to seven billion humans by the year 2013 throughout the world (Dustmann, 2004). More than before, farmers will have to produce greater amounts of food while, at the same time, achieving a higher quality on soil of unchanging or even decreasing potential. Due to urbanisation and unsustainable cultivation, everyday 17,000 ha are taken away from massed farmland.
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