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

Part III.
Soil Management
Soil Management
“e truth is that the vast majority of bacterial types remain 
completely unknown, with no name and 
no hint of the means needed to detect them.”
Edward Wilson
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Convenional farming cannot solve the problem of soil compacion. 
You might be frustrated by this fact, but nothing can be clearer: coninuing
convenional agriculture and bringing back life to soil are not compaible
Photo: Youngsang Cho
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JADAM Organic Farming 
1. The current state of our soil 
Soil contaminated by anibioics, chemical pesicides and ferilizers
According to Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (Korea) and Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Korea is classiied as
heavy-user country in terms of antibiotics for livestock, and pesticide and
chemical fertilizer for crops. Major Asian countries are similar. Antibiotics, syn-
thetic pesticide and fertilizers have seriously degraded the soil. Roots of all types
of crops have great difficulty settling in the soil. But agricultural policy promot-
ing the use of chemical fertilizer and pesticide does not change. Some renowned
agricultural experts and columnists defend conventional chemical agriculture
and launch attacks on organic farming citing various reasons. How can they be
not concerned about the chemicals poured into the soil and their impact? 
Soil degradation is global; it is fast bringing the death of agriculture. Agri-
culture should look one hundred years into the future. Conventional farming
simply is not sustainable. Any farming that degrades soil will destroy the future
of farming. Soil contamination is linked to human contamination. If soil is dis-
eased, so will humans. If soil dies, so will we. We must change the current
chemical-intensive farming. Stop using toxic substances!