How we green the desert

It goes without saying that we are facing worldwide desertification. What is accelerating this problem? I think the global population growth is the one. Under these circumstances, securing food is paramount. As the monetary economy is spread around the world, there is no way to self-serve food and people develop nature for life. According to the famous story of Ladakh（region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir）, people who were living in harmony with nature were interviewed about the situation being controlled by the monetary economy.（Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World is a book by Helena Norberg Hodge） Another one is the overgrazing. They are required from buyers to breed sheep and goats with an emphasis on economic rationality. The root cause is the same, people cut and sell nature to live on.

One of my life's purpose is how widely I can green the world. Also, the greening should enrich people's lives. It is the technology that prevent the desertification and recover it. I will show it.

Quote from EU Science Hub（The European Commission's science and knowledge service）

・Over 75% of the Earth's land area is already degraded, and over 90% could become degraded by 2050.

・   Globally, a total area half of the size of the European Union (4.18 million km²) is degraded annually, with Africa and Asia being the most affected.

・   The economic cost of soil degradation for the EU is estimated to be in the order of tens of billions of euros annually.

・   Land degradation and climate change are estimated to lead to a reduction of global crop yields by about 10% by 2050. Most of this will occur in India, China and sub-Saharan Africa, where land degradation could halve crop production.

・ As a consequence of accelerated deforestation it will become more difficult to mitigate the effects of climate change .

・By 2050, up to 700 million people are estimated to have been displaced due to issues linked to scarce land resources. The figure could reach up to 10 billion by the end of this century.

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When we plow the high temperature bacteria fertilizer Kira-Ace into the field, it gives heat to the soil, then the plowed area is hard to freeze even on the snowy day in winter.

This means the farmers can cultivate even in winter. Moreover many Kira-Ace farmers earn about 10,000 thousand JPY or more per 1,000m2 farm in a year. There are three reasons.

The 1^st is they can earn in winter. The land is difficult to freeze even when the temperature is minus 10 degrees. If farmers can grow in winter, their income will increase accordingly.

The 2^nd is the products are high price vegetables. Although they are necessary to develop sales destinations, it makes it possible to grow organic premium vegetables. In Japan the organic farmers are only 0.4%（about 20,000 farmers）among the 2,530 thousands farmers (*). Yes, Japan is the “pesticide paradise” because the regulation is loose. There are many health-conscious consumers, so, differentiating from other farmers leads to high income. 

(*) Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 2010

The 3^rd is efficiency. For example, if the farmers need not treat the weed, they can transfer that effort to other tasks. The main job of a successful farmer is harvesting. If other work can be saved, it can be shifted to that work.

I expect that this farming method will be useful for farmland conversion such as the cold Gobi desert.

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The high temperature bacteria fertilizer Kira-Ace is made by the mushroom bed in the factory. It is 60℃.

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When we think about the pH（potential of Hydrogen）of the soil, many people say neutrality is the suitable condition, so they try to adjust it（e.g. To enter the Ligite lime）. But we know the strong acidity（pH3）is the better one. We show the reasons as follows.  

1.       The weed species cannot grow because of the strong acidity.

2.       The strong acidity disturb the entry of the harmful bacteria.
3.       The above results, the objects grow well without being deprived of nutrition.

When we work on the organic farming or the pesticide-free farming, removing the weed is the hardest jobs, then many farmers struggling about it. But in the strong acidity soil, it is resolved and next problem is the harmful insects. Mr.Kamiya who invented the Kira-Ace says that the odor cause the damage by the harmful insects. If we give the dilution solution to the objects, the problem is going to solve.　（dilution rate 100~700 times）

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It is said that the drainage is one of the most important essence in the soil based agriculture. If the soil contents too much water around the root, it is going to cause root rot because of the lacking of the oxygen. So, most of the farmers cultivate their farm to improve the drainage and some reasons as follows.

1.     To supply the air in the soil

2.     To soften the soil to extend the root smoothly
3.     To mix the fertilizer and the soil
4.     To activate the microbe and kill the mold and the harmful bacteria by the sun light

Generally speaking, it must be done by the farmers. However, if it will automatically be done by the local microbe, the way of the soil based agriculture will change dramatically. The organic fertilizer Kira-Ace enable it. 

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I introduced the hydroponics is better than the soil based cultivation in the agricultural style. As said before, if we keep the harmony to the nature, we must keep the soil natural in order to activate the native microbe. Recently, the agricultural practice accelerate the soil contamination worse, and the environmental condition of the microbe become worse.

However, I know the good organic fertilizer named Kira-Ace. This fertilizer include the high temperature bacteria. This bacteria live more than 45 degrees Celsius preferably and is called archaea (Latin) and is a kind of Protobiont (Life having a state just after the life birth). 

This bacteria bring the tremendous effect to the soil based agriculture.