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