(“Hybrid rice” from ati.da.gov.ph,
“Mataas” from youtube.com)
This is Not Good! After
blogging my Tuesday, 01 Nov 2022 essay “BBM’s Dream Of P20/Kg Rice – To Help Make That Dream Come True Almost Immediately,
Somebody Fund Me As I Re/Invent A Mechanically Intelligent ”Masaganang Sakahang
Kabalikat’ Rotavator (‘MSK Rotavator’),” someone emailed me to point out
her/his advocacy of hybrid rice –
implying that “Regenerative Agriculture (RA) could not produce high hybrid
rice yields.
Challenge accepted!
I am not naming that someone here, but I am going to refute
her/him.
Madam/Sir,
when you emphasize high yield of rice, watch me as I salute you – but when all
you emphasize is high yield of rice,
watch me as I refute you!
To simplify RA, let me limit my discussion to organic farming. I do not remember
her/him mentioning anything organic at all, while I have been “in love” with Organic
for the last 57 years!
In my return email, I challenged her/him to find a financial
sponsor for my techno demo on what I call “Masaganang Sakahang Kabalikat” (“MSK
Rotavator”). That is to say, using today’s off-the-shelf rotavator but
following my strict instructions on how to operate it, I will show the world
that Organic Mulching (OM), as
part of Regenerative Agriculture, will give you these Healthy Results 7 times
over:
1.
Healthy Soils.
2.
Healthy Crops.
3.
Healthy Yields.
4.
Healthy Foods.
5.
Healthy Consumers.
6.
Healthy Pockets Of Farmers.
7.
Healthy Villages.
In contrast, I dare say, Chemical Agriculture is unhealthy 7
times over, giving us:
a.
Unhealthy
soils – Chemical fertilizers generate greenhouse gases (GHGs), and chemical
pesticides deposit residues – how can I ever learn to like either of those?
b.
Unhealthy
crops – If you spray chemicals on
your crops, how can you expect naturally healthy results?
c.
Unhealthy
yields (no matter how high) – Those
high yields have to be computed against high costs of production, so your high
yields are in arithmetical numbers only, not in farmers’ incomes.
d.
Unhealthy
foods (as always, which you can easily
buy in the market) – If you grow your crop using chemicals, of course they will
produce chemically laden stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and grains.
e.
Unhealthy
consumers – How can food consumers
be healthy when all they eat is unhealthy foods from chemically laden farms?
f.
Unhealthy
pockets of farmers –
Granting that 10% of farmers earn much from Chemical Agriculture – what about
the remaining 90%?
g.
Unhealthy
villages – The fields are laden
with chemical residues from fertilizers and pesticides, as well as the
greenhouse gases (GHGs) that are automatically
generated – how can those villages ever be healthy with the resulting Climate
Change from GHGs?
How
can I ever love Chemical Agriculture!? – Take away Climate Change and I just
might!@517
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