Jadam organic Farming & Gardening : The Way to Ultra-Low-Cost Agriculture, Make All-Natural Fertilizer, Pesticide and Microorganism Inputs Yourself

re-input
. Nutrients
do not low away; instead they stay in a closed loop. 
Farming has a completely different process. Here humans take away all the
fruits; sometimes fruits are harvested more than once a year. As a result, soil is
exploited and the cycle of nutrients is clearly broken. How then can a farming
stand with zero-input, without compensating for what humans have taken
away? Human intervention for human-caused damage is all but necessary be-
cause farming is not same as nature: in nature all beings share; in farming, hu-
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mans take all. Do not seek miracles in farming; comply only with science. What
is taken out needs to be put back in. Organic nutrients come from the sun, air
and water which are ininite resources. However that is not the same for inor-
ganic nutrients. Minerals are inite resources and, like oil pumped out of the
earth, what is taken out is taken out. ey are not reproduced endlessly through
the operation of the sun, earth and water. 
Zero-input farming can be successful for a short time if the soil is excessive
in nutrients because there is a lot to exploit. But this cannot go on for tens or
hundreds of years. If zero-input is such a successful method then our ancestors
have done needless things for the past four thousand years – using excrement,
urine, livestock manure, green manure and residues to fertilize the soil. Some
zero-input advocates from Japan use vinegar for pest control. at is literally
not zero-input. Applying vinegar is same as providing foliar fertilizer. JADAM
strictly adheres to a scientiic thinking. As Adam Smith put it: “Science is the
great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
How much and what minerals have been taken out of my soil through the
process of natural leaching? is is very difficult for even scientists to measure. But
taking a super macro-view can give us an insight. Let us look at this problem of
leaching from a “global” view. en it is easier to ind out where the minerals taken
out of my soil have eventually gone: the sea. For hundreds of years, my soil has ex-
perienced leaching of nutrients; to cure it, we will