This is a translation of one of the video I have seen recently.
We lost the wonderful nature due to our modern life. We are concentrating on daily exercise, yoga, etc. But, are we concentrating on food? One of the research reports confirms that we eat food along with poison daily. Medical shops and restaurants are very near. We are taking food and medicine, or taking medicine and eating food. This is today’s Plight. Non-foresight agricultural plans.
In the name of the green revolution, we used foreign chemical fertilizers on our agricultural land. Now these fertilizers and pesticides are mixed with our blood. How does this mistake happen? What is the solution? How to protect nature and provide a good life to our future generation?
How chemical fertilizers entered into India?
During the Second World War, many companies produced explosives. After the war’s end, their products were not in use, and they didn’t get profits. So they consulted with the scientists to find out alternative solutions. Scientists advised them that Ammonia is the main product used for producing explosives, which can be used for preparing fertilizers. So those companies started producing many chemical fertilizers.
From that incident, fertilizers like Ammonia sulfate, Urea, DIP, Potash are created. A petroleum product called Naphtha is produced from petroleum from Arab countries. This Naphtha is being used to produce all fertilizers. Once prepared, the fertilizers were sold. Basically, more crops are produced in sunny countries only. So the green revolution was introduced in South America, Asia, Africa countries. So the fertilizing company sold fertilizers and earned a lot of income. But the Indian rice varieties not adopted these fertilizers.
The companies are advised to bring the Japanese rice varieties to cultivate. These Japanese rice varieties adopted these chemical fertilizers. So, introduced Adudhurai 27 rice by combining Indian and Japan rices. This rice adopted the fertilizers. So, with the help of the International Rice Research Institute (IRR) in the Philippines, introduced IR-8, which also adopted the use of fertilizers. But the taste of the rice changed due to putting more fertilizers. So people did not accept this Rice. Then IR-5 came into the picture. Then IR-20, IR-22, IR-36, IR-63 introduced.
Since Indian farmers started using these kinds of rice varieties, there is a lack of hay for cattle. So lack of cattle waste (dung) for the land. In this situation, there is no option for farmers, and they fully depend on fertilizers. This is how the fertilizers came for regular usage in Indian Agriculture. The end result is that farmers became borrowers, and land became sterile.
What are the impacts?
Agricultural land quality is based on three qualifications. First one is Land should not be sticky. This is called physical state. For maintaining this state, our ancestors put cattle waste on the land, cattle are maintained on the agricultural land, and mixed green leaves with the land. They brought and put the soil from the pool, lake, or river. They mixed oil cakes (waste after extracting oil). The second one is a bio. For this quality, Microbes should be on the land. Bacteria, fungi, earthworms, centipedes, etc. should be in the land.
The third one is natural fertilizers. If the first and second are there, then the third one will be available naturally. Crops will get automatically Foliar, Ash, Magnesium, copper, Iron, potassium nutrients. Due to the chemical fertilizers, we have thrown these natural farming techniques into the corner, which our ancestors did for 15000 years. So the land became sterile. Tilting the land became hard for the cattle. So we are going for the tractors. This is another expense for the farmers.
The land has become harder since using tractors and putting in fertilizers. Since crops do not have enough nutrients, pests came. For that, we started using pesticides. Initially, the pests are controlled by pesticides, but later pests have adapted. So we started using more pesticides. This is another expense for farmers, as well as the food that we are consuming became poison. The cow milk, breast milk, and all food became poison. So people are always with diseases.
People are spending more money to hospital, doctors, and medicine than on food. The life expectancy of people has decreased. This is a bigger tragedy in the world. Our natural seeds, cattle, are gone.
Previously, a single farmer cultivated rice, vegetables, cotton, grains, and has chicken, cattle, etc. Now the situation has reversed. Nowadays, A farmer chooses individual crops and cultivates only that particular crop, like banana, sugar cane, rice, chilli, etc.
What is the response from the Indian Government and Scientists?
Science, followed by our scientists are incomplete. They can’t invent anything with fulfillment. French scientist Louis Kervran claimed that nuclear transmutation occurs in living organisms. For Example, the cow eats grass and provides milk. Grass contains magnesium, and milk has calcium. So some internal process is happening inside the cow’s stomach. So it’s not necessary to feed only calcium to the cow.
If the plant requires nitrogen, it’s not required to provide only nitrogen, phosphorous etc. So basically, one form of nutrient is converted to another by survival functions. Nobody accepted his statement. Because everybody asked for the proof. That is called science. It is very difficult to capture the proof from this survival function.
The other scientist, Masanobu Fukuoka told that the total is different, wholesome is different. For example, A human has a head, body, two hands, two legs, and other parts. This is called total. But only if he survives, then only human being. So this logic is not in science. For producing seeds, a separate scientist is needed to find the fertilizer ratio, and a separate scientist is needed to find the planting time. So all are working individually. They will not be aware of what is happening in the other department. So they mixed all together and provided agriculture. So agriculture is getting destroyed slowly.
We can’t tell them as scientists because they don’t have their own knowledge. In 1952, America got 2000 scientists from India to the United States to visit all over the USA. After returning, they keep on telling what Americans are following. But, they do not understand that the climate and soil vary across the continent, and the western cultivation method will not be suitable for the Indian climate.
Finally, they said, the Green Revolution is the biggest success. They said, produced enough food. Country met Complacency. It looks like they are not reading newspapers. There are lots of people still hungry. Then how come the country met complacency? The other fact is, the food is not only rice and wheat to say complacency.
Our childhood study says that food means the mixing of carbohydrates, protein, fat, minerals, vitamins, etc. Whatever was required, govt didn’t give importance. Hay is not available nowadays at all. If it is there, a cow produces more milk. Milk is a better food than rice or wheat. Our other grains, such as Millet, Maize, finger millet (Ragi), Horse gram, etc., are rich in nutrients.
20% of the water is enough when compared to rice for producing these grains. City people started buying this nutrient flour and eating it already. Now, slowly, the government and scientists started thinking about organic farming and allocated a little budget. The government needs to allocate the entire budget to organic farming in order to improve agriculture.
What is the solution for this issue?
Farmers are attending suicide across the country. 30,000 farmers died by suicide. One of the richest places for farming is Vayanadu in Kerala. 1500 farmers died there by suicide. Farmers will understand themselves and return to natural farming. They won’t depend on government decisions. When they go for natural farming, the expenses of buying seeds, the expense of buying fertilizers, and pesticides are reduced. At least 3000Rs per acre is reduced for rice, for sugar cane 5000Rs, for cotton 5000 Rs, and for vegetables 5000 to 6000 Rs. So it’s not important how much they produced, but it’s a matter of how much they are getting the net profit.
What is Natural farming?
We can call it natural farming. Earth’s age is 430 crore years. One-celled insects developed 100 crore years ago. These 100 crore years, nature did farming itself. When humans started farming manually, nature started destroying itself. For the past 15000 years, farmers have understood nature and have farmed accordingly. So nature prevented. We have to return back to the same state. There is a given take policy between humans and nature.
For example, get the rice home and return hay to nature. In the same way One of the farmers of Gujarat took just a coconut from the tree and threw the leaf there itself. Earthworm keeps digging the soil. During the rain, the water goes at least 10 feet down and increases the nutrients to the trees. Tamil Nadu farmers already started doing this method. In Karnataka, for sugar cane, they followed the same method.
Just cultivated one time, and they keep harvesting again and again from the same root. So they maintain the old variety of the sugar cane. For 50000 tons of sugarcane, at least 5000 tons of leaves will be there. Our scientists advise to fire the leaves on the same land. When we farm on the land, the soil becomes hard, and it loses all its natural resources. So this kind of firing should not be done, and the leaves need to be used as nutrients. The land should be with the natural waste. If we observe, the plant developed in natural trash will give a healthy vegetable and produce more.
How to control pests in natural farming?
We should not worry about the pests. For the last 15000 years, we have not taken any action to control pests. It will control automatically. The birds will help to control the pests. There are 450 varieties of birds available in Tamil Nadu. When we started using pesticides, the birds stopped coming into gardens. If we wanted to use pesticides, needs to use natural pesticides like ginger, garlic waters, etc. Instead of using pesticides, it’s better to improve the immune system of the plant.
How to make these natural farms?
There is no market created for organic products. Still, people hesitate to spend a little more money to buy organic products. In Sweden country market, there is a separate section for green food. It will be a little higher in price. But the products are getting over immediately. That means the consumer already has an awareness of the organic products. So consumers and farmers need to be connected. The best way is for consumers to go to the gardens directly to get their own requirements. So the intermediate vendors will be avoided, and the farmer and the consumer will get much benefited.
So friends, let’s start visiting farms frequently. If you like this post, share to your friends.
