To Carry On The Evergreen Revolution & Eventually Defeat Climate Change, The Least We Can Do Is Pursue Organic Agriculture

If I keep thinking of how to defeat Climate Change and bring on The Evergreen Revolution, I will defeat myself – it’s difficult, it’s impossible! So? I take it one day at a time.

(“How do we” image from youtube.com, “Impossible” from themuse.com, “One day” from youtube.com)

Now then, I see Organic Farming as the path on the way to help defeat Climate Change. Exactly what is organic farming? On Facebook, ANJANADADRI Organic Farmer says (“Organic Farmers,” facebook.com):

Organic farming… in India… is being followed from ancient time. It is a method of farming… primarily aimed at cultivating the land and raising crops in such a way, as to keep the soil alive and in good health by use of organic wastes (crop, animal and farm wastes, aquatic wastes) and other biological materials along with beneficial microbes (biofertilizers) to release nutrients to crops for increased sustainable production in an eco-friendly, pollution-free environment.

From vikaspedia(vikaspedia.in):

Organic farming is a production system which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetically compounded fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators, genetically modified organisms and livestock food additives. To the maximum extent possible organic farming [relies] upon crop rotations, use of crop residues, animal manures, legumes, green manures, {off-farm] organic wastes, biofertilizers, mechanical cultivation, [mineral-bearing] rocks and aspects of biological control to maintain soil productivity and tilth to supply plant nutrients and to control [insects], weeds and other pests.

To that long list, I will add my favorite, what I call “Rotavator WEALTh” – my method of rotavation that automatically produces an organic mulch out of weeds and soil, and spreads it automatically all over the field. (“WEALTh” is acronym for “Weeds-Enriched Automatic Layer of Trash Triggering Terrestrial Health.”)

Also according to vikaspedia, here are the:

Advantages of organic farming:

1.     It helps to maintain environment health by reducing the level of pollution.

2.     It reduces human and animal health hazards by reducing the level of residues in the product.

3.     It helps in keeping agricultural production at a sustainable level.

4.     It reduces the cost of agricultural production and also improves the soil health.

5.     It ensures optimum utilization of natural resources for short-term benefit and helps in conserving them for future generation.

6.     It not only saves energy for both animal and machine, but also reduces risk of crop failure.

7.     It improves the [soil’s] physical properties such as granulation, good tilth, good aeration, easy root penetration and improves water-holding capacity and reduces erosion.

8.     It improves the soil’s chemical properties such as supply and retention of soil nutrients, reduces nutrient loss into water bodies and environment, and promotes favorable chemical reactions.

With all those benefits, I think Filipino farmers do not think about organic farming! It’s so much easier to buy those chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides.

Some experts claim organic farming is too laborious. That is correct – if you do not know how to simplify the procedures. That is also a bad excuse from contributing to the battle against Climate Change!@517