Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware

Post by genreers » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 12:42 AM UTC

claudiulodro wrote: post #11

nyokodo wrote: post #7

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> 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability Smaller farms -may- have less vast monoculture sustainability issues. However, how do the 2.5 acre farms achieve the efficiencies that scale affords the massive farms in terms of water, energy, and fertilizer use?

Something like the Vietnamese VAC (garden/pond/livestock) system[1] is the ideal in terms of efficiency and complete nutrition in my opinion: > In many villages, 50-80 percent of families have the full VAC system. Figures show that 30-60 percent of income of most village families may come from the system; in many cases, it may be 100 percent. > The pond is constructed close to the house so that the domestic and kitch…

Post by 11235813213455 » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 9:59 AM UTC

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #10

11235813213455 wrote: post #6

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We definitely still need very large farms with big machines to feed the world; but nowadays, with climate problems, droughts, smaller and diverse farms resist better, are more productive by surface, have a better quality of soil, better quality of food, they are literally carbon sinks, it just requires more manual work

> it just requires more manual work Oh, is that all :-)