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Corporate Greed Driving India Farmers to Suicide by the Thousands

The promise is the same everywhere. Buy oursimilarly deep root crop which mines the deep
patented seeds at twice the price of others,minerals in sub soil. A government which will
buy our chemical fertilizers and pesticidessubsidize small scale agriculture will make
and you will prosper like the governmentstrict conditions. A gardener must produce
subsidized American farmers. These corporatetwice the food his family requires, so a
parasites know how to sell in any language.partial failure allows his family to eat.
The cost of the promised prosperity whichCrops sprayed with a mixture of kelp or
seldom occurs without government subsidy andseaweed and fish emulshion are drought
requires annual borrowing, as with Americanresistant, insect resistant (few insects eat
farming, is more than a poor farmer canfish or kelp), disease resistant and yield
afford. But corporate greed convinces him tomore plant and fruit than anything corporate
gamble his future and his life on falseagriculture will ever have to offer.Build
corporate hope.Working hand in glove with theraised gardens close to the house or shanty
corporate scum are the local money lenders,where it is natural to keep a close eye on
sometimes taking 5% interest per month andthem. Make them any length and four feet
sometimes the entire harvest if drought orwide, waist high. Fill the bottom half with
floods do not beat Mr. Moneybags to thesand or stone, the top half or one third with
harvest. India could not have chosen a worsetopsoil and compost. Build with brick, block
model to modernize its agriculture thanor stone which will not wash away with heavy
American corporate farming, which has alreadyrain. Use either a square foot method or
destroyed more value than it has produced,third meter, in the case of a one meter wide
excluding corporate profits of course,bed. The idea is an easy reach from each side
because corporate balance sheets are all thatto the center of the bed. By growing food and
matter in this world. Raped lands andhigh value cash crops in these raised beds,
environments be damned.People and the peopleone has purchased one time flood insurance.
in government especially, easily lose sightSmall pipes at the bottom of these beds allow
of the fundamental importance of agriculturethe bed to drain by gravity. The soaked soil
to the total national economy. A nation whichwill drain. If the rain is severe or
does not feed its people is forever dependentprolonged, spread inexpensive covers over a
upon the good will of people who cannot besturdy frame above the plants in the bed. In
trusted. Even the rich nations have boardedWinter or cold weather, clear plastic covers
this leaky boat and they will pay dearly forwill heat the bed and prevent crop freeze
so doing and are already paying dearly, inovernight. The thermal mass of such elevated
terms of food quality, environmental damagebeds acts as a thermal flywheel, maintaing
and disease.If a nation is to have healthydesired temperatures.As each gardner is
people, requiring a minimum of medicalgrowing twice the table food required by his
attention, it must have health producingfamily or more, let the surplus be split.
food, not the plastic the corporations peddleHalf for fresh seed and half for the local
in the name of high yields and damagemarket. The independence and security the
resistance. To have health building food,regular production of surplus food engenders
grow in rich organic soil 100% chemical free.cannot be valued in currency. This is
In the story I read, a 31 year old farmerprivate, personal, life and health insurance.
borrowed $9 for a bottle of pesticide whichCash crops should be both common and coveted
he drank to kill himelf. So the manufacturermedicinal herbs and spices. There will always
made five dollars to create a widow and twobe a free market for such. Wisely chosen
small fatherless children. Congratulations onherbs and spices may be dried and shipped
your keen business acumen, corporatearound the globe at very high profits. Trends
parasite. Win - lose marketing at itsin rich countries will always tell you how to
finest.Indian government must discourage allharvest the most cash from a square foot or
farming and switch to organic gardening tothird meter of crop.Square Foot Gardening is
continuously enrich the soil upon which anow so highly developed, one can grow five
combination of subsistence and high valuetimes the crop volume with the same resources
cash crops are grown. Competing withwasted in conventional farming and gardening.
government subsidized, environmentallyAny nation not using this method is wasting
destructive, disease producing corporateresources and labor. Harvest humanithy for
agriculture is like running a marathon onrecord profits and growth, not chemicals and
your hands and knees. You might finish thescarce resources. Outlaw the corporate
race but you will win no prize. We areconfidence men and the local money lenders.
talking about a sustainable foundaion for aTeach your rural populations sustainable
national economy. It deserves more thoughtagriculture and become the dominant economic
and planning than where to build the nextpower of the New Age. The wisdom to do so is
chemical disaster.To have rich and healthyamong your people. When you end farming, you
soil as a foundation for prosperity it isend farmer suicides.Ed Howes sought and
essential to compost mineral rich plants andfound, knocked and entered. Now he sees
manures, green and vegetariabn animal wastes.things differently. To see more of what he
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