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Explain the impact of increasing population on agriculture.

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  1. Land is limited and production of crops is limited to some extent
  2. Population increase will put pressure on land
  3. Increase of population will result in conversion of agricultural lands into urban lands, industrial lands etc.
  4. Use of High yield varieties of seeds to increase production for increasing population will result in over irrigation, soil contamination, high pesticides usage and alkalinisation of lands.

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