RE: Can Nanoparticles take the place of synthetic fertilizers?
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They say we have about 60 years of topsoil left due to these farming practices.
One of the big ones for regenerative agriculture is covered soil - so green manure crops would be a better option than spray on fertiliser. Also, the concentration of NPK is daft - there's THOUSANDS more nutrients that soil needs, and one of the other things are bugs and bacteria which monoculture fertilisers totally disregard.
I think there's lots to be done in the world for more innovative fertilising - when I say innovative, I mean go and look at people like the Mayans who used humanure and biochar and had incredibly rich soils. That's where we need to head.
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Thank you @riverflows for the insightful comment. Organic farming is actually the best way to go but I think scalability might be an issue. Hopefully, we will be able to innovate to scale so as to mitigate the disruption to the ecosystem and destroy future heritage.
Well yes, because if we don't, any questions about scalability are redundant as we will all be dying of hunger.
You can actually get much higher yields than you imagine with regenerative ag. And more nutritious as well. High yield, giant and uniform crops are actually not good for us... We need to change how we think about the food we eat x
Many don't want to believe that engineered crops would have their downsides in the long run. Nature is mostly about trade offs, something must have been given for all those giant looking pawpaw.