Recently, youngsters who try to work as a farmer have been increasing though farm management is not easy and full of difficulties. Swiss info reported it today.
According to the article dated on May 5 in their website, it was reported that the number of students in farm schools are skyrocketing.
The popularity has going higher since 2002, and it does not show the decline. In addition, it is said that some of those who had compulsory educations in other fields take the course of farm education trying to change their jobs.
This is the story in Switzerland, but in Japan, youngsters who want to be farmers are said to be increasing, too. Why do the youngsters start to have interest in farm industry? Are they tired of city life? Or are they fed up with material society or harsh money seeking corporate organizations?
They must have a variety of reasons, but it will be true that this is a signal to prove that something in modern society is going wrong. Those youngsters are definitely fed up with something in this current society.
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2 comments:
the need for more farming is because of "peak oil", but i doubt the youngs
even know about it, it is more likely the older people at the top of institutions
that are pushing to get more farmers with publicity, without explaining why it is
needed, the younf follow like sheeps
it is visible even in mainstream movies, planting this idea in youngsters' mind,
even in country where farming land space is rare and expensive, like Japan, if
you watch the movie yaku sanju no uso, you'll see one of the male characters
wants one of the female to leave the train with him and live a new life as
farmers in Hokkaido, and shows her a booklet about farming to convince her
(^_^)
here, i'll use the word "oil" as a generic word for "fossil fuel" so that the
word oil include: liquid form (oil), gazeous form (natural gaz) and solid form
(coal)
peak oil is when the demand for oil increase as the availability of oil decrease,
when demand equals availability or demand gets bigger than availability, unlike
before, when oil availability was not a problem, they just needed to pump
more oil out of the ground... but now, we have reached peak oil
when the public hears "peak oil", they think of a higher price for gaz when
they fill up the gaz tank of their car, but they don't know that they eat oil.
yes, you eat oil, litterally, like all of us. i have eaten oil all of my life since i
was born, just like you. no kidding.
fertilizers are made with ammonia, and 90% of the price of ammonia is the
price of natural gaz that it is made from, the higher the price of natural gaz,
the higher the price of fertilizer.
when you eat a tangerine, part of that tangerine is oil because of fertilizer,
so, you do eat oil.
the amount of vegetables, fruits & grain that modern farmers can harvest
from the ground is possible because of fertilizer and machines (tractors, etc.)
that need oil to fonction.
when you go to the store to buy tangerines, you use a plastic bag (made
from oil) to hold them, you walk on a floor that was cleaned with a detergent
(made from oil), you pay those tangerines with a credit card (made from oil),
the cashier punches the price on a keyboard (made from oil) with her fingers
and you notice her painted fake fingernails (made from oil), then you go back
home in your car (because of oil) to eat those tangerines that grew because
of fertilizers (made from oil)
you are what you eat
you are oil
everything man made is possible, at least in part, because of oil, oil is every
where, disguise in ways you cannot even imagine
i don't know the numbers for asia, but in nord america and europe, when you
draw a chart for the growth of human population and another chart for the
growth of oil extraction, both charts match, the drawings showing the growth is
the same for both
it is possible to have that much humans alive because of oil, fertilizers to eat,
soap for higiene to reduce diseases and infections, etc.
when people think of fossil fuels, they see dead dinausores that turned into oil
millions of years ago, wich is true, but the root of it is solar energy feeding
plants that feed animals that feed a bigger dinosaur... or solar energy feeding
plankton feeding fish feeding shark that dies at the bottom of the sea,
decomposes and turn into oil, or natural gaz or coal.
oil is a long and complex form of transformed solar energy that has been
accumulated for millions of years
millions of year of sun rays transformed by photosynthesis turned into oil in
the ground
all that old energy getting release now creates the global warming
farming is photosynthesis, farming is solar energy
the oil boosted the number of humans on earth, as if we had many planet
earths to collect sun ray and grow tangerines, we HAD that energy, but we
don't now, we have reached "peak oil"
one of the ways to mitigate peak oil is to harvest oil directly with farming
south america is famous for ethanol made with sugar cane and because they
use every residuals (not used for ethanol) back in the ground to fertilize it,
they are pretty much independant and don't need natural gaz to fertilize the
ground to make ethanol, they don't need oil to make oil...
north america does not have the climate to harvest sugar cane, so, they use
corn instead. for the same area (land size), a crop of corn make 8 time
LESS ethanol than sugar cane, and you need fertilizer to grow that corn.
(;_;)
here, we have more and more farmers using a greater part of their land for
corn, some farmers are planning to make their own ethanol production plant
and sell directly ethanol, they dream of becoming as rich as arabic sheikh
in Canada there is a lot of research to transform wood lignin into ethanol so
that they could harvest the forest instead of corn
as more farms turn to ethanol (tree, corn or sugar cane), there will be less
farm for tangerines and the price of tangerine will go up, that means more
money for farmers
more farmers are needed because of peak oil
Hi marcchabot,
Hi again! Thank you very much for the very insightful story m(_ _)m
I had lots of fun to read it, and it was persuasive.
I didn't know the movie where Hokkaido, my living place appeared (it seems that you know Japan's movies more than I (*￣∇￣*)).
Reading your comment, I just thought a little that declining birthrate may be good in some ways though some governments may hate it from the perspective of economy.
Thank you so much for teaching your knowledge spending your precious time!! It was exciting!!
Good night or have a nice!!
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