Save the Soil. Even mud is precious. Only when living things - even the icky ones - can grow on soil can edible plants come up too!
When an old man told me the role of earth worms in making a soil rich and tillable, I was surprised, remembering the crawly creatures that would come up during rainy days in my ground floor flat in Delhi. The chemical fertilisers not only kill the bad but the good germs and worms too.
When I see the government ad for using only that much fertiliser as is needed, I wonder if there was anyway we could have known this before.
Maybe India is lucky in that many farmers could not afford the fertilisers and so continued to use natural methods. But when you hear of artificial ripeners and vegetables being polished with dyes to make them look fresh, it gets scary. Food, instead of being a source of nutrition and strength, seems to have become a slow poison.
Buying only as much as one needs and ensuring their proper consumption would reduce the pressure on production and therefore on land. Maybe we can still save the soil by allowing land to be fallow.
When an old man told me the role of earth worms in making a soil rich and tillable, I was surprised, remembering the crawly creatures that would come up during rainy days in my ground floor flat in Delhi. The chemical fertilisers not only kill the bad but the good germs and worms too.
When I see the government ad for using only that much fertiliser as is needed, I wonder if there was anyway we could have known this before.
Maybe India is lucky in that many farmers could not afford the fertilisers and so continued to use natural methods. But when you hear of artificial ripeners and vegetables being polished with dyes to make them look fresh, it gets scary. Food, instead of being a source of nutrition and strength, seems to have become a slow poison.
Buying only as much as one needs and ensuring their proper consumption would reduce the pressure on production and therefore on land. Maybe we can still save the soil by allowing land to be fallow.
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