Posted by oldtanker on January 19, 2014 at 07:50:41 from (66.228.255.116):
In Reply to: Sustainable Farming posted by Eldon (WA) on January 17, 2014 at 12:31:21:
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No farming in Africa is almost non-existent compared to the amount of farmable land. There are 2 major reasons. One is infrastructure. They lack fuel, equipment and other supplies in many areas. A few years back an American church group took old tractors, easy to maintain one, fixed them up and took them to Africa to teach the locals there how to farm more productively. When the church were done and left the natives used them until they ran out of fuel. No fuel supply equals no tractors running. The other problem is that we have made those people dependent on hand outs. My wife attended college with an African student taking AG classes who complained bitterly about the refugee camps that families had been in so long that they were afraid to leave. In the camp someone gave them food every day. They didn't have to worry about no crops because of draught. They got fed. He said that the camps and free food was the worst thing the developed nations ever did to Africa as it made the people afraid to leave. So if you went to Africa with the necessary equipment, parts, fuel, seeds, fertilized and other stuff you could grow just as good of crops as we grow here.
The thing is Gene sustainable doesn't mean no chemical fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides. It means only as needed. Using manure and whatever else like crops residue to put something back into the ground that will hold nutrients there. If every year you have to put my chemical fertilizer on per acre to get the same yields then something is wrong with the soil conditions. That is not sustainable in the long run.
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