Discuss two sides - modern farming approaches to food production. Due to the population growth in recent years, the challenge of food supply has become a global spotlight. The extensive use of modern farming technology is widely recognized as a positive development to alleviate this problem. However, the promotion of these technologies is not without its criticism and the potential risk, to some extent, plunges the public into panic. This essay will evaluate arguments both for and against these modern approaches. It will examine the modern farming technology in term of the benefit of high yield and potential threat to both human health and the ecological chain. There are a number of arguments in favor of the modern farming technology. As the agricultural mechanization has improved in recent decades, the extensive plantation can be widely implemented. Furthermore, the agriculture production always give priority to the specially selected excellent crop varieties, so that the per unit yield is raised dramatically than before. Therefore, the modern farm technology plays a vital role in the effort to help human beings to get rid of hunger. In this case, the educational background of farmers may become the limiting factor, whereas the increasing overall input level of education will minimize this issue in the near future. There are, however, some valid arguments against the modern farming technology. The genetically modified crops are favored by some specialists because of their advantages, such as insect resistance. Conversely, the customers are suspicious of the security. After all, compared with the traditional food, the genetically modified food has existed only several decades and the experiment data on them may not widely convincing. Besides only a minority of excellent crop varieties are popularized in the modern farming practice. This ignorance on the others may has a detrimental effect on species variety, which may result in the extinction of the relative species feeding on these crops. Thus, the ecological chain would be impacted potentially. In conclusion, every technology has its drawbacks, even though the modern farming technology has its disadvantages and has plenty of room for development. We should recognize its important role in alleviating poverty and the priority is to optimize technologies and take full advantage of them.