Shankar Venkataraman
1 min readDec 1, 2020

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I have been doing soil farming for 13 years
1. Regenerative farming uses less water. Stores lot of rain water in soil. Filters and cleans water and air, produces nutritious food and draws down carbon. Prevents soil erosion and can withstand strong rain and no wind erosion is possible with climate resilient farming.

2. In highly biologically active soil, soil microbes at the rhizhosphere are responsible for production of phytonutrients and antioxidants and secondary metabolites in plants and microbial metabolites are also absorbed by the plant to boost immunity of plant.

3. Expensive hydroponics and vertical farms cannot replace the power of soil and nature to give nutrient dense food through soil. Nutrient dense food is needed to heal us and the planet. Replacing soil with water can be compared to replacing God and nature.

4. We need to drawdown gigatons of carbon that humanity has put in the atmosphere and oceans back to soil through regenerative agriculture.

Shankar @bhoomi farms @mapletree farms.

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Shankar Venkataraman
Shankar Venkataraman

Written by Shankar Venkataraman

Farmer, author, farming teacher, public speaker. Areas of Agriculture and technology in Agriculture.

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