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We need to rethink how we plant and sustain agriculture over long term. Ie a shift from mono crop fertiziler to sustainable multi crop robotic weed control.

by acd 5y ago

UncleOxidant 5y ago
This is an advantage of smaller-scale organic growing operations: the nitrogen gets recycled. Yes, it means we'd need more people involved in agriculture again, but there are benefits for the climate and for resilience. India has been showing the way here with high rice yields using organic methods.
- Melting_Harps 5y ago
  > This is an advantage of smaller-scale organic growing operations: the nitrogen gets recycled. Yes, it means we'd need more people involved in agriculture again A lot of Gen Z, and many younger millennials are completely disgusted with Society and would leap at opting out for a period of time or for good. I think we should as a Society should offset and subsidize this cohort with cheap loans on land, seed, and equipment for sustainable, organic, and regenerative farms as a viable way to take on climate change. As a person who did it as well (mid-millennial) for a period of my adult life it taught me so much and to be honest it paid dividends in just about every industry I've ever worked in: Automotive, Tech, Ag, Health Sciences. And it enriched my life in ways I'm still only finding out as I grow older. > India has been showing the way here with high rice yields using organic methods. While I think India is going through some (much needed) progress with it's recent protests against introducing cheaper alternatives that undercut the farmers in unfair pricing wars, India is seriously one of the worst examples of Ag practices. Whether it was the the wide-use of BT cotton seed and dependence on Monsanto inputs that led to wide spread misery and suicide, or the horrible generational debt system(s). It's hard to think how Vandana Shiva's vision of food sovereignty could ever take hold when the Indian political class is intent on upholding the caste system by marginalizing the people who grows their food.
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We need to rethink how we plant and sustain agriculture over long term. Ie a shift from mono crop fertiziler to sustainable multi crop robotic weed control.

by acd 5y ago

We need to rethink how we plant and sustain agriculture over long term. Ie a shift from mono crop fertiziler to sustainable multi crop robotic weed control.

UncleOxidant 5y ago

This is an advantage of smaller-scale organic growing operations: the nitrogen gets recycled. Yes, it means we'd need more people involved in agriculture again, but there are benefits for the climate and for resilience. India has been showing the way here with high rice yields using organic methods.

Melting_Harps 5y ago
> This is an advantage of smaller-scale organic growing operations: the nitrogen gets recycled. Yes, it means we'd need more people involved in agriculture again A lot of Gen Z, and many younger millennials are completely disgusted with Society and would leap at opting out for a period of time or for good. I think we should as a Society should offset and subsidize this cohort with cheap loans on land, seed, and equipment for sustainable, organic, and regenerative farms as a viable way to take on climate change. As a person who did it as well (mid-millennial) for a period of my adult life it taught me so much and to be honest it paid dividends in just about every industry I've ever worked in: Automotive, Tech, Ag, Health Sciences. And it enriched my life in ways I'm still only finding out as I grow older. > India has been showing the way here with high rice yields using organic methods. While I think India is going through some (much needed) progress with it's recent protests against introducing cheaper alternatives that undercut the farmers in unfair pricing wars, India is seriously one of the worst examples of Ag practices. Whether it was the the wide-use of BT cotton seed and dependence on Monsanto inputs that led to wide spread misery and suicide, or the horrible generational debt system(s). It's hard to think how Vandana Shiva's vision of food sovereignty could ever take hold when the Indian political class is intent on upholding the caste system by marginalizing the people who grows their food.

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