Focused
on yields, food per acre, using technical tried and tested methods, clean room
or green house to reduce or eliminate pest and disease, chemical nutrients and
preservation to market, are the duties of Agriculturalists. In other words,
such scientists, who produce foods and medicines, are responsible for
population health; nutrition and wellness, at an affordable cost. Hence, the
best technology must be utilized and constantly engaged in research, labs and
market testing, and to scale-up development to best meet market demand. It
would be a shameful waste for produce to spoil, be damaged or stolen, after so
much care, between harvest and consumption.
The agriculturalist, moving beyond simply farming,
focuses on market supply and demand data, yields of produce grown in the
measured space, cultivating large acreage with a small footprint employing
vertical geographies, using state-of-the-art production methods; improving
step-by-step on reproductive manipulation, the traditional prepared pen or top-soil
with added pesticides, nutrients and irrigation, harvesting, storage, and
delivery methods. Large acreage crop farming requires nutrients plowed into the
top-soil, seed germination, seedling transplanted from nursery to open
environment beds and motorized equipment to boost efficiency. Animal farming,
similarly, requires nutrients, feed, medicine and water, reproductive services
and space for muscle development. Improving production now requires a smaller
footprint, constructing a multi-level building with utilities, supplied and
distributed, to manage temperature airflow, lighting requirements and water
movement, to be competitive worldwide.
Eliminating pest and disease was natures job. However,
to feed a growing, mostly motionless, population, mankind started using researched
and developed chemicals to kill pest and/or worn off disease. The use of clean
room and/or greenhouse technology allows a greater percentage of success in
protecting food produce. Nature was solely responsible for survival of the
fittest animal and plant life, with control of unwanted and destructive
elements, moving animals to new grazing fields and hunting grounds, developing
survival skills, at the same time, giving plants time to regenerate and develop
natural resistances. Most pesticides and medicines in use, were developed
solely for its stated purpose, but not researched for the effects on human
health. It is the clean room effect which is best for human health.
Nutrition to improve grow-time quantity and harvest
the best quality produce, using specific nutrients and feed compounds with developed
chemicals, tested to give the best results for each individual type of product.
Nutrients, found in the natural food chain, meant that farms were called upon
to grow or buy and store two or more products; a primary product to supply the
market and other products to feed or from the primary product. For example,
growing corn to feed chickens, while using animal and plant waste, which are
important inputs in compose functions, to make fertilizes, plant food. The
manufacture of specific animal and plant feeds, which is scientifically
researched and tested, is economically scaled to efficiently reduce cost and
give the best grow results, through each stage of development.
Preservation methods have traditionally been limited
to a combination of refrigeration, pre-cooked, sauced and packaged. Keeping the
agriculturalist engaged straight through to consumption, is wise. Knowledge on
and about harvest time and conditions, storage requirements and transportation
methods, is essential. Processing facilities, located within the farm, ensures
quality produce inputs and controls in preparation of other marketable
products. So much care has been taken to protect and grow the produce, now,
packaging, time, temperature and geographic location, should be tracked using
specially designed sensors, which feeds such relevant data back to the farm, to
improve the next batch of produce output.
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