United Nations says, "Only 60 harvests left for Mankind".

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Apr 7
4 min read

Updated: Apr 13

The source of all energy on Earth is the Sun.

The agent for all food production on Earth is the life in the soil. To be more accurate, it is the microbial life in the soil.

The difference between dirt and soil is that soil has life, hence energy. Living in the soil are countless bacteria, fungi, protozoa and Nematodes. A single gram of soil contains up to a billion bacteria and a million fungi. Most of these microbes live in what is known as topsoil, Topsoil is the upper layer of soil, usually between 5 to 20 cm (2 to 8 inches) in depth, that contains most of the earth's usable nutrients that provide the soil its fertility. in depth, that contains most of the earth's usable nutrients that provide the soil its fertility.

Generating 3 cm of topsoil (fertile soil capable of supporting agriculture) takes 1,000 years. If current rates of soil degradation continue, all of the world's topsoil could be gone within 60 years, a senior UN official FAO's deputy director general of natural resources Maria-Helena Semedo of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) told a forum marking World Soil Day. She added, "Soils are the basis of life, Ninety-five % of our food comes from the soil."

Soil degradation takes place due to both natural causes and human activity. Soil is both lost and regenerated naturally in a balanced way. However, the rate of degradation of topsoil due to human activity is so rapid and massive that we are losing 1 hectare of fertile land every second to desertification.

We humans have devasted the soil to such an extent that alarm bells are ringing everywhere. But it looks like not many are listening. Those who listen feel exasperated, for they do not know what to do except wring their hands with worry. Nothing can be more frightening than knowing of impending disaster whilst feeling helpless to do anything about it.

So we pretend everything is ok and someone or something will come along, or God might appear to save us from the impending doom.

"We are losing 30 soccer fields of soil every minute, mostly due to intensive farming," Volkert Engelsman, an activist with the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements told the forum at the FAO's headquarters in Rome.

"Organic (farming) may not be the only solution but it's the single best (option) I can think of."

Current organic practices produce products that are richer in quality but they cost much more than farming using industrial farming meaning the use of chemical fertiliser, heavy machinery, large-scale use of pesticides and herbicides.

What if I were to tell you that there are ways that each one of us can do to save our soil and the planet and in turn save ourselves?

Nature and history teach us what is the natural cycle and how we can regenerate our planet. Herbivores feed on the pastures and grasses and in turn, excrete their waste onto the land which makes the soil rich in nutrients and microbes. That is why keeping poultry and livestock on the farm has been so important.

Nowadays hardly anyone has animals on the farm, they are all being raised in special poultry and livestock production facilities. Consequently, the natural cycle of replenishing the soil has been broken. So we have to adopt unnatural means which require 10 calories of energy to produce a single calorie of food, more water and artificial nutrients to produce inferior qualities of high volume, toxic food whilst polluting the soil, water and air.

We at Bhushakti Biotech have developed and been providing organic fertilisers to farmers and gardeners using the very materials that have been used on the farm for thousands of years. It is provided as a concentrate with a good shelf life (1 year).

These low-cost fertilisers can be diluted on-site and administered to the soil. Adding these fertilisers rich in nutrients and microbes the soil becomes productive.

Couple this with adding organic matter into the soil in the form of compost, dried leaves etc. and providing ground cover of plants and mulch one can experience high quality and production yields.

By using these organic fertilisers with the right practices topsoil loss is greatly minimised, plants are more resilient to climate stress, the requirement of water is less and invasion by pests is greatly reduced if not eliminated.

To top it all, the food grown tastes great and can be stored for longer without spoilage.

We can regenerate barren and saline land, making them healthy and productive. The organic waste that comes from food and agricultural waste that causes numerous problems can be recycled back into the land to enrich it using organic decomposers also produced and supplied by Bhushakti Biotech.

We can manifest the change we want to see.

If you are a concerned citizen, an educator, a land owner, a farmer etc, in fact, anyone who wants to regenerate a better world please join the movement, Call us at +91 ‭957 951 0353