“Successful Farming For Beginners – How? With Rotavator Reinvented, Simultaneously We Cultivate The Soil And Produce Organic Fertilizer Free!” – Frank A Hilario, UP Los Baños Alumnus
The proposed 2-year project, with techno-demos, will be executed
at PhilRice Los Baños Station in Laguna,
where we have nearby UP Los Baños and
IRRI. Engineers from UPLB College of
Engineering & Agro-Industrial Technology (CEAT) will be called upon
as necessary. (Above, the lower image shows a rotavator behind the tractor at
PhilRice Los Baños.)
(Tractor+ image from me, 18
April 2018)
Reinventing the rotavator is one simple way to transform all
of PH Agriculture to solve 2 problems simultaneously: (1) Farmer Poverty and
(2) Climate Change! It’s Frank A Hilario’s original idea, given birth by Edward H Faulkner’s book “Plowman’s
Folly” – in which he states that plowing is wrong! Ah, farmers universally remain
imprisoned by their own folly!
Kinsmanivan says
(27 Dec 2020, “The Father Of No-till: Edward H Faulkner,” rainwaterrunoff.com):
It was on 5 July 1943, when Plowman’s Folly was first issued, that
the author startled a lethargic public, long bemused by the apparently
insoluble problem of soil depletion, by saying, simply, “The fact is that no
one has ever advanced a scientific reason for plowing.” … For generations, our
reasoning about the management of the soil has rested upon the use of the
moldboard plow… Mr Faulkner proved rather conclusively that soil
impoverishment, erosion, decreasing crop yields, and many of the adverse
effects following droughts or periods of excessive rainfall could be traced
directly to the practice of plowing natural fertilizers deep into the soil.
That’s
Agriculture 1943 going on to 2022. We should know better today!
Based on Edward H Faulkner’s ideas & experiences, I reinvented
the rotavator with my original technique. My brother-in-law Enso Casasos always
out-yielded his neighbor farmers who did not know about FAH’s rotavator magic!
Above, the lower image shows in the disc plow with its large
circular blades. The disc plow always buries the “natural fertilizers deep into
the soil” – becoming useless as natural enrichers of the field.
Unfortunately,
all rotavators available today do not help cultivate the field in order to
enrich it!
Now
then, I am enticing either BBM or Ma'am Leni and her Angat Buhay Foundation to
finance a reinvention of the rotavator so that it becomes so easy to work with
and get the desired results – even if the operator is a novice – such as a
young girl!
With
that organic mulch, you don’t need chemical fertilizers, which generate
greenhouse gases, which generate climate change!
Thus:
Reinventing the Rotavator equals Reinventing Agriculture – and helping solve Climate
Change!@517
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