CHEMICAL FERTILIZER IS ONE OF THE MAJOR CAUSES OF SOIL DIMINISHING FERTILITY

Prophet Jakob Lorber was told that when the technology of the present age has reached a high peak, so that "ships pass over the billows of the sea like whirlwinds, and indeed offer defiance to the sea and move across its enraged face," the time of adversity would be about to begin. The "great fire of retribution from the heavens" will not be far then, according to Lorber. This time of retribution is to be preceded by other plagues. "But soon after that time (referred to before) things will begin to look very bad for the life of man on earth. Wars, great scarcities and shall arise, for the earth will grow less fruitful." (Great Gospel of John, volume 3, chapter 33, verse 4). The earth is to become less fruitful? Surely chemistry has succeeded in achieving greater harvests than ever before. It has indeed done so, yet Lorber's prophesy is already coming true. The inestimable consequences of climactic changes affecting the harvests in the Northern Hemisphere have already been discussed. The soil is also under threat in other ways, though most people are not yet aware of this. It has been shown above that soil erosion has increased enormously following forest clearance, so that huge areas were lost in dust storms and great floods, erosion is inexorably continuing. At the same time, Lorber says, soils must be expected to give poorer yields in the future. This is known to the experts, and they also know the reason. It was Justus Liebig who put forward the theory that only inorganic nitrogen compounds played a role for plant growth, and this was for a long time taken for gospel. Meanwhile, however, the theory has long since been proved wrong. It is now known that soils not supplied with organic matter (stable dung, peat, etc.) will in time lose their proper condition, i.e., their healthy, crumbly consistency. The reason is that soil bacteria rapidly decrease in numbers in the absence of organic materials. Humus formation is utterly dependent on these small organisms: if they are not present, there will also soon be no earthworms, and once they are absent, soil health is a thing of the past. It has been shown that soil bacteria do not multiply adequately when mineral fertilizers are used on a long-term basis so that their numbers soon go down. A Nobel Prize Winner, Vertanen (Helsinki) has been able to show that bacteria immediately reduce physiological activity or even stop it altogether. Source: The Prophet Jakob Lorber Predicts Coming Catastrophies and the True Christianity By: Kurt Eggenstein
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Philippine Experience
Chemical artificial fertilizer was introduced to the Philippines in 1960. It was still the time of great harvest, and the old harvest had to be removed to give way to the new harvest. Our grandparents reminisced those good olden days as one which you could throw a winnowing basket on the tops of robust rice plants, and your basket, due to the thickness of the leaves, would not fall down to the ground! When chemical fertilizer urea and 14-14-14 came in 1960, it was easy to harvest 80 sacks per hectare. Robust grains, virtually no chaffs. President Marcos launched the Masagana 99, which meant farmers could harvest up to 99 or 100 sacks if they would use the chemical fertilizers. It was the Green Revolution, Philippines version. In the 1960s, only one sack of fertilizer was to be applied per hectare. Today, year 2012, after 52 years, fields need vary: from 8 sacks to 16 sacks per hectare. So, there has been an increase of fertilizer amount from 1 to at least 8 sacks per hectare. And the yield? Hardly 100 sacks. Worse: the versatility and resistance of the rice plants has gone so down that a mere increase of temperature would result to what local people see as burning the rice plants got like being burned and the yield down to zero, if you are not so fortunate! There has been no official and comprehensive study and documentation on this subject. We got this information from individual reports and conversations from many farmers from all over the Philippines. But the huge evidence that confirm this is before our face: Gone is the rice sufficiency that past presidents and leaders boasted about or promised the Filipino farmers. And they blamed another thing: the quitting of many farmers from farming to allegedly go to another source of income, or farmers children being educated for professional works. But there is no investigation done why such farm abandonment really takes place. If some investigative journalists would dare it, they will see that one of the main reasons why farming families hastened to leave farming and embraced education as the option, then, they would see, among other things: DIMINISHING RETURN DECREASING YIELD: the inputs of farming especially fertilizers are too expensive compared to the small yield. And why diminishing return? Why decreasing yield?

In this article, you read scientists saying the reason, or one of the major reasons: chemical fertilizers, supposed to add fertility, or yield, decreased the soils natural fertility in the long-run! The acids of chemical fertilizers poison the microscopic organisms and also earthworms who are, mind you, the makers of natural organic fertilizers and new topsoil! So, where does that lead us? A dead soil, and helpless plants now putting their dependence totally on chemical fertilizers to give them the yield their planters (that is, the farmers) expect them to give. But sadly, such yield such fruits are artificial and full of chemicals. Just look at the health of the people eating these artificially produced grains and vegetables and you will see how wrong was to trust the agents of artificial fertilizers coming from governments agriculture department from the salesmen. Fifty-two years have passed. And it is enough to look back and take a stock. And what we see backward is indeed a news about backward development a reverse progress! Arnulfo Yu Laniba Director, Agape Foundation (Agasoft) Email address: cocoy777@yahoo.com