Most people still have a bucolic view of agriculture. In fact, modern agriculture is far from green.

It is in fact, one of the largest contributor to green house gas.

Unfortunately, organic farming is not as productive. In fact, it is said that today’s yield is bout 10 times what it was in the 1930s when farming was pretty much organic.

Organic farmers would likely defend their ways by claiming that organic farming has also evolved since the1930s. Even so,, with shrinking farmland and increasing worldwide demand for food, even today’s farming practices are stretched to the limits and the agro-industrial complex is looking towards transgenic foods as a solution.

Consumers may have let pass the use of chemical fertilizers,herbicides and pesticides but when it comes to using GMO in food production, that’s where it stops. Today’s population is better informed and won’t just take anything that is put in their dinner plate.

That is the problem we are now facing: Food scarcity. After decades of mono culture, the topsoil has given out all that it could as far as nutrients is concerned. Real estate developers keep on buying farms and turning them into ever expanding suburbs. Governments rezone forests into farmland.  Environmentalists protest the turning of forests into more polluting farmlands.

More people, less farmland, less productive land. How do we get out of this mess?

The solution may lie in greenhouse farming.

More on that in a future post.

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Even Vegas is getting on the green band wagon.

At least, all that gambling money is being used to build an 18 million square foot sustainable development area.

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