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The goal of involving "smarter" agg technology should be to allow more complex agricultural methods without increasing manual workload too much. There seems to
by worldsayshi 2y ago
The goal of involving "smarter" agg technology should be to allow more complex agricultural methods without increasing manual workload too much. There seems to be a lot of ideas around how diversity can be utilized to increase both sustainability and yield. But there seems to be a long uphill battle against mono cultures before reaching some kind of disruptions since the margins are so thin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_agriculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_agriculture
- whimsicalism 2y agoregen agriculture is a fun little academic/artistic pursuit completely unrelated to the business of feeding 8 billion people.
- worldsayshi 2y agoAre you saying that non-monoculture practices will never give better yields per acre or is there a more nuanced explanation here?
- fullspectrumdev 2y agoIn theory monocultures allow for higher yield per acre, but in practice it’s really hard to keep the soil healthy enough to sustain yields over time without adding (eventually) unsustainable amounts of fertiliser. Crop rotation and leaving land fallow for a year can get you some extra time, but monoculture farming practices are inherently destructive to the soil, and mitigating the damage done takes a long time. Also worth noting that a huge amount of destructive monoculture farming has nothing whatsoever to do with food production - it’s for bioethanol and such.