STOP Organic farming To Help Future Food Crisis.. Here's Why
Welcome back to Down On The Farm, today on the channel we are going to talk about Stop organic farming to help future food crisis, says Syngenta boss. Rich countries should increase their agricultural production in order to prevent a global food crisis, Fyrwald told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper in an interview on Sunday. Organic farming yields can be up to 50% lower than non-organic farming, depending on the product, he claimed. “The indirect consequence is that people are starving in Africa because we are eating more and more organic products,” he told NZZ. Organic farming requires more land and it is bad for the climate because the fields are usually ploughed, which increases CO2 emissions, he added. Fyrwald said his opposition to organic farming was in no way linked to Syngenta’s business objectives. The Chinese-owned group produces pesticides and genetically modified (GM) seeds. “The entire industry makes high profits with organic products because consumers are willing to pay a lot for it,” he declared.
Fyrwald advocates a third way: so-called regenerative farming that uses crop rotation techniques from organic farming and the targeted use of pesticides and GMOs to increase yields.'Grotesque'. Reacting to the interview, Kilian Baumann, a Bernese organic farmer and president of the Swiss Small Farmers' Association, called Fyrwald’s arguments “grotesque”.
He said the Syngenta CEO was “fighting for sales” as farmers are using “fewer and fewer pesticides”. Food insecurity. Almost 193 million people in 53 countries suffered acute food insecurity in 2021 due to what the United Nations said was a “toxic triple combination” of conflict, weather extremes and the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The war in Ukraine poses further risks for many countries, especially in Africa, which rely on Ukraine and Russia for wheat, fertilizer and other food supplies. Stay tuned for more details in this video.
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