Biological Agriculture for Life

The majority of agricultural technologies disable the plants natural ability to adapt to their climates because they are artificially provided nutrients in the form of external fertilizers.  This is true throughout the world and affects crops in every corner of the earth.  "Climate change may affect the production of maize (corn) and wheat as early as 2030 under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, according to a new NASA study published in the journal, Nature Food. Maize crop yields are projected to decline 24%, while wheat could potentially see growth of about 17%."  This is also true for olives in Spain, rice in India, coffee in Africa and many other critical crops.  This will affect all of humanity and in particular, those whose livelihoods depend on the production of agriculture.  From the US EPA, "Agriculture is very sensitive to weather and climate. It also relies heavily on land, water, and other natural resources that climate affects.  While climate changes (such as in temperature, precipitation, and frost timing) could lengthen the growing season or allow different crops to be grown in some regions, it will also make agricultural practices more difficult in others.".

Our solution is to provide plants their much needed nutrients from the soil and not from external artificial means.  Fertilizers provide three major elements that plants must have, nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous.  However, plants need many dozens of micronutrients in order for the primary and secondary metabolic systems to function optimally.  There is only one way to achieve this and that is how plants have been doing it for the last 385 million years, through the symbiotic relationship between the soil microbiome and the plants photosynthesis processes. Our technology inoculates the soil with a complex consortium of bacteria, fungus, yeast and algae that ensures plants receive the full complement of the soils micronutrient minerals, as pure elements and also in ionic form. There is no need to apply fertilizers, the soil and air have everything that the plants needs to adapt to its elements, just as they have done for 385 million years.  Our microbiome inoculant has bacteria that can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere and also make the soils potassium and phosphorous soluble, naturally.  There are many more functions that the microbiome perfrom to enable a healthy plant that can adapt.

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The solution serves all agriculture in every climate and in every soil.  This is the reason that native plants have become endemic in another region of the world; they search out the same microorganisms, albeit with slightly different strains, however the photosynthetic-microbiome symbiotic relationship is the same the world over.  Today, almost all agricultural production is based on the application of fertilizers because producers have no other alternatives or options.  Even organic production is limited to the same phiosophical approach, use microorganisms to feed the plant as opposed to fortifying the soil microbiome.  The dependency on fertilizers also creates the dependency on remedies for sick plants which is always the case when the plants are fed artificially.  This technological microorganism solution will free the poorest of farmers from economic slavery and dependence on the multinational coroiprations.

Our team has worked on this problem for the past 10 years, primarily in Ecuador.  We have visited more than 35 communities in 14 provinces to teach peasant farmers how to change their agricultural practices.  We are currently working with laboratories in Chile and Mexico to do the same thing, replicating microorgansms in bioreactors for farming communities.  We understand very well the plight pf peasant farmers in Latin America who are the most vulnerable of people yet produce almost 70% of all food consumed locally.  The team is led by Sheldon Caref who has written books, provided courses for training and personally visited many of the local agricultural communities in the highlands, the coast and the jungle areas.

We currently serve about 100 farms in Ecuador, Mexico and Chile with our solution technology.

We need resources to scale to the demand in the form of laboratory equipment for production and further investigation, more staff and buildings.  This would include  molecular laboratory, DNA sequencing machines, bromatological laboratory, and bioreactors.  We need legal help in presenting patents in each country that we plan to work in and we need assistance in developing a strategic alliance program to align with other small laboratories throughout the world through patent licesning agreements.  This will also require assistance in developing a global organizational structure.

All current agricultural technologies are almost exclusively focused on increasing production with no concern for plant health or nutrition.  This grave error reduces the plants natural ability to use its amino acids in creating different structural proteins for adaptation.  Plants live in one fixed place for their entire lives and have evolved through complex metabolic mechanisms to adapt to excessive biotic and abiotic stresses such as pests, rain, heat, drought, hail, wind, and cold.  Some plants have more chromosomes than humans, which demonstrates the plants adaptability capability.  The irony is that when the focus is on plant nutrition and health, it costs less, produces more, and increases adaptability.  It also produces plants with greater nutritional density since the plant is able to uptake greater concentration of soil nutrients and the plants use less water for irrigation since aerobic microbes create pockets on the soil for increased water conservation.  This technology can transform all agriculture globally for these reasons.

Our immediate first year goals are to industrialize the solution to create further outreach in our local communities of Ecuador, Mexico and Chile.  Our next five year goals are to expand to other countries and further expand within our regions through strategic alliances using licensed patents to provide the strains for use everywhere.

Industrialization requires bioreactors and laboratories, marketing, increased scientific staff and more building space.

Expansion to other neighbor countries and other continents requires complex patenting, licensing contracts, marketing and a global organizational structure.

One set of measurements is the growth of the technology in every instance of opportunity by how many hectares get the solution and the number of farmers that use the solution.  A second measurement is a statistical evaluation of crop survivability as the climates change locally.  A third measurement is the success of the crop production in terms of yield vs cost of production.

Change can come in many ways.  It can be forced but then it is only temporary.  When the enforcer is no longer able to make demands, the change is reversed.  Change can also come through making an error in judgement but then the mistake is realized and the action is either reversed or changed to another course of action.  The best source of change is through a solution that solves the root cause and brings benefits to the users and they adapt the solution as their own and even improve upon it.  The third source of change is our model.  We want everyone to adapt the solution, accept it as their own and improve it.  It will  be permanently theirs, never to revert back to artificial agriculture and fertilizers, always believing in the metabolic relationship of the planet and humans.

The core technology is nature and how plants evolved by sinking roots into the soil more than 385 million years ago and developing a symbiotic relationship between the plants photosynthetic sucrose carbon molecules emitted as exudates in the radicular system to attract bacteria and fungus that in return for the carbon nutrients exchanged trace minerals that the plant needs.  

There are several ways that planbts derive their nutrients form the soil microbiome and each in theor own way has assured the survivability of the worlds oldest forests, naturally.  Plant roots with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associations is probably the oldest and goes back to the original development  of microbes and plants, about 400 million years ago. These fungi provided the plants with nutrients and water through long distance extended fungi trains in the soil.  Endophytic bacteria started soon after that in which bacteria entered the plants roots, deposited their trace minerals, consumed the plants carbon sugars and then exited the tiny root hairs.  About 60 million years ago, another form of bacteria developed with a special relationship woith leguminous plants forming bacterial nodes on the roots and using a process called nitrofication to extract nitrogen from the air and then fixing the nirogen in the roots.

The soil microbiome is far more complicated than that of all organisms on the earth and we are at the beginning frontier of learning how the soil microbiome may be our best friend for our survival.

All humans are equal and all people on the project have an equal opportunity to speak their truth.  There is no room for racism, sexism, philosphical or political isms.  All people are treated and respected as leaders.  No one is better than anyone else, no matter their responsibility, since every job is critical to success.  We are all accountable to each other.

Our technology will be distributed through direct sales to producers and agricultural communities, through distribution networks and through sales via strategic alliances with other laboratories with licensing agreements.

Our work will be sustained through our sales.  The price point for the product is $20 per liter for 0.5 to 1 hectare application.  The cost of production is less than $5 per liter.  This prices is extremely competitive with all other products on the market since it is an all-in-one product while the competition sells multi point products to achieve production results.  All gross revenue will be used to maintain operations and organically grow the business.

We are launching the product in Ecuador on April 29, 2023.  The similar technology products have already been serving customers in Chile and Mexico for several years.  Our technology is superior to that of the other two countries and will be adapted in those countries.  We will also share in the investigation process going forward as was mutually agreed legally.