3 ms·

Nitrogen fixated feltilisers, our agriculture industry at its current scale is only possible due to fertilisers produced at mass from natural gas. There are oth

• loup-vaillant 9y ago
  > our agriculture industry at its current scale is only possible due to fertilisers produced at mass from natural gas. It's a bit more complicated than that. Growing organic food on a healthy soil, will give you a certain amount of yield. Using fertilisers and modern techniques on that soil will give you a tremendous temporary boost. But most such techniques kill the soil in the process, and you eventually run out of natural fertilisers. Using fertilisers and modern techniques on dead soil will have yields similar to organic food on a healthy soil. The only real advantage at this point is the reduced human labour required (organic food is more labour intensive overall). Of course, organic food on dead soil will be crap. We can stop relying on fertilisers, if we have a healthy soil. Fortunately, there are techniques to resurrect dead soils (basically have some wood rot on that soil), and some other things. It takes about 2-3 years, though, and generalising those technique will definitely require more farmers.
  • ant6n 9y ago
    Those organic farmers are probably more easily replaced with robotics than ones arms or brains.
  • deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]