Pick and Write [Agricultural Word]👉#19
Green Farming
Farming as practiced now, has its downside on the environment. We're using artificial fertilizers and pesticides to eliminate the pests that come around and forgetting that the chemicals is dealing another form of damage to the soil and the crops we're so badly trying to protect from the pest.
The objective the farmer has is to produce the maximum amount of food possible while at the very same time putting the least effort into the treatment of the soil. So a very unbalanced trade between us and nature is going on.
The soil provides, and we take from it but we don't think of what might happen when there is nothing left in the soil to take.
But green farming asks that very question and tries to solve it.
The approach to this kind of agriculture is quite simple and I can put it into one statement.
No synthetic chemicals are used on green farms.
Instead of chemical fertilizers, the farmer will only depend on manure and compost. All those chemical Insecticides are not needed because pests are kept under control using natural ways. They have different plants growing on the same soil to keep it fertile.
And this is important to remember if you're into farmer and you just started or you're not seeing it this way. The soil is just like a living organism which can get healthy or get sick till it dies. Soil death means it can't do what it is meant to do, just like how when a living thing dies it can't do the things a living thing is supposed to do.
If you're seriously seeing soil and treating it like dead earth, you're going to eventually kill its life force. If you dedicate the effort into taking care of the soil, you'll get good harvests year in and year out.
Green farming requires much less water and energy than conventional agriculture. And the reason I can say that is because wasteful practices harm any enterprise eventually. Just a matter of time and you'll realize you spent more water on conventional practices.
Wasting your basic resources can end you up in bankruptcy in the long run. Something you wouldn't want as a Farmer because agriculture draws money from your pocket to continue and without it, you just can't do it.
Some do get the term long run benefits wrong. They just assume that green farming means fewer profits and less productivity and so they don't pay attention to it at all. That's not a correct assumption.
Traditional agriculture is quick to earn profits, but it quickly becomes unproductive, too so know that. It loses efficiency when the soil deteriorates, when pests become immune to chemicals, when soil becomes exhausted. It's enjoy now, suffer later.
Just like your life, if you treat the farm and soil and the agricultural business well, it grows well too.
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