Agriculture

Plastics have enabled people to turn apparently unproductive land into modern agricultural operations, allowing local subsistence economies to become driving forces of prosperous economic and social development. Agriculture is becoming increasingly specialized and has a great ally and partner in these plastics, which are increasingly capable of providing a specific response to crop requirements and to the climate. In order to face the challenge of demographic pressure which, according to the FAO, will encompass over 10 billion people in 2050, which would require over a 60% increase in current productivity to be able to feed the population. One of the great challenges of modern plasticulture is to develop techniques that minimize environmental impact, improving their usability, making them thinner to reduce their carbon footprint and searching for new applications for new crops.