Growers and farmers should be given incentives to encourage them to grow sustainable organic crops. There are many creative ways that growers could use organic farming methods for increasing crop yields while maintaining or even decreasing or eliminating pests and pesticides. (In Asia, for example, farmers use flocks of ducks to eat pests in rice paddies. There are ladybugs, lacewings and predatory wasps that are currently being used in organic farming here in the United States to eat pests.
If a group of farmers in a community or region were to all be incentivized to use methods that don’t involve pesticides, they would all have healthier crops and higher yields for their efforts. It would only take a year or two of incentives for the farmers to see the benefits, and the incentives could then be applied somewhere else, to another group or community.
Sustainable affordable organic agriculture would result in lower prices for consumers, as growers don’t spend money on pesticides and are still able to afford to keep a profit margin from the sales of their produce. It would also result in healthier food being produced and available for consumers at lower costs.
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This would be fantastic. There are so many things that need to be done in FDA organization to make this happen. Probably start from scratch with FDA organization. Also need regulations on companies/corporations/government from planes dropping unknown chemicals on US citizens without their knowledge. We The People only hear about it through whistleblowers.
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But the need for herbicides still exist.
Example… my fields are full of horse nettle. Extremely poisonous to my sheep and goats, causing blindness, extreme throat irritation and dead. The only way to remove it is herbicides, repeatedly.