Agriculture

 Agriculture and health share a bidirectional link: Agriculture affects health and
health affect agriculture.
 The process of agricultural production and output it generates can contribute to
both good and poor health while people health status determine the agricultural
productivity
 Firstly, agriculture is vital for good health, produces worlds food fiber ,materials for
shelter and also is a source of livelihood for many.
 Agriculture produces many of the food that can be used as main source for human
nutrition.
 The medicinal plant harvested via agriculture can be used for medical benefits,
manufacture of medical drugs etc.
At the same time ,agriculture can be linked with poor health ,including malnutrition,
livestock related disease ,foodborne illness, occupational hazards, malaria, chronic
illness etc.
Likewise the agriculture affecting health, health also influences agriculture.
Peoples health status directly influences their agricultural products, outputs.
In the agricultural community, poor health reduces work performance, efficacy
,income productivity, perpetuating a downward spiral into ill health.
A healthy manpower can better work efficiently for effective agricultural yields.
 Examining health in agricultural context is therefore most vital because
agriculture presents not only opportunities for improving health but also risk to
health is equally vital because health affect agriculture.
 This directionality offers an incentive for two sectors to work together because it
helps to orient agricultural system to benefit heath and health system to benefit
agriculture.
 The link between health and agriculture provides a framework.
 The framework comprises of core component of agriculture supply
chain(producer, system and output),key health concern and mechanism of
common interaction between health agriculture component,:income, labour
,population.
This links help two respective sector, health and agriculture to work
together to find solution for each others problem.