Oct 5 Is “World Teacher’s Day” – This Teacher Is Saying The World Has To Learn The Universal Meaning & Significance Of Regenerative Agriculture
(Images: top from istockphoto.com,
bottom from istockphoto.com)
The upper image tells us that up to now, 53 years after scientists
of the universities UCLA and Stanford accomplished the first long-distance
networking of computers in 1969 (Jonathan
Hodgeback, britannica.com),
the actual beginning of the Internet, the world looks at teaching in a mechanical
way, not connecting things one to the other, like a field suddenly burning.
The Internet came to the Philippines in 1994 (wikipedia.org),
and the Hilarios got connected
sometime in 1997. Considering what I have learned since attending college for
my BS Agriculture major in Ag Edu at the
University
of the Philippines College of
Agriculture (UPCA, now UP Los Baños),
graduating in 1965 and continuing my self-study in agriculture and related
fields, especially via the Internet:
I have
come to the conclusion that Agriculture is the one major field where we can Defeat
Farmer Poverty and with us undergoing Primate Change can simultaneously largely
help defeat Climate Change!
I have
equated my self-imposed work of what I call “Communication
for Village Development in the 21st Century (CoViD21)” with the single
act of reinventing the rotavator so that in 1 running, it accomplishes a 3-in-1
task:
(1) cultivates the soil,
(2) cuts & mixes soil & plant materials together, and
(3) certainly & consistently distributes the mix all over the field as it happily
goes along!
My rotavation innovation will enrich the farmer because s/he
does not need to buy any fertilizer it all – s/he creates it on the field
automatically – which means zero fertilizer cost in farming, which means the
would-be cost goes to the farmer’s pocket. (There is only 1 problem: The
innovation needs financing to be realized.)
The rotavation innovation is my single contribution to the
worldwide concept of Regenerative Agriculture that Robert Rodale started in 1989 as “Regenerative Organic Agriculture” (rodaleinstitute.org).
(Please note that “organic fertilization” is only 1 way towards Regenerative
Agriculture.)
With all the above in mind, here now is my considered definition:
Regenerative
Agriculture is any principle, process, procedure, or practice applied by man that
repeatedly returns, revives, resuscitates, or reinforces the natural ability of
the old or newly cultivated field to grow plants and animals as dictated by the
laws of Old Mother Nature.
As I
see it, Regenerative Agriculture must not simply renew the soil but also the
whole field far and wide with growing plants and animals peacefully carrying
out their natural relationships.
We can then expect the following outputs or products from
our practice of RA:
(1)
Healthy soil
(2)
Healthy crops
(3)
Healthy animals
(4)
Healthy harvests
(5)
Healthy foods
(6)
Healthy farmer incomes
(7)
Healthy villages.
How
did they say it again? Regenerative Agriculture shows that certainly, “Health is
wealth!”@517
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