There is a limit to what technology can achieve, though technology makes farming systems easier and less stressful but the harm is huge, we no longer eat fresh foods, and our products are based on chemicals which are very dangerous to our health.
Most farmers especially commercial farming are now making use of too much fertilizers which reduces the nutrients we are getting from our food products, people now plant maize without rainfall, and vegetables are now taking a week to germinate, all in the name of too many chemicals used on it.
We can no longer boast of having fresh food directly from the farm without thinking twice, what is wrong with our old farming system? where we eat fresh foods and fruits, our farmland can no longer produce healthy plants because of too much fertilizer in the land.
Though we can no longer blame the farmers who depend solely on technology, the more fertile your product is the more you entice more buyers, people no longer go for nutrients we are after quantity and not quality, we can no longer afford quality food again, we rather go for what is available at the moment which limits our well being
Most of the food we are eating today is the cause of our problems, they are the ones causing damage to our bodies, I heard a story where a farmer added formalin to his farm products for them to grow well, and the formalin I know is the injection used in embalming dead bodies, though it may give the best results to the farmers but what of the people consuming it? This is causing damage to our body system due to our ignorance.
I was reading on social media today when I came across a post that people no longer soak cassava for days to produce fufu, fufu is one of Nigerian's native foods, it is produced from fermented cassava, and now people are adding detergent for it to soak on time, this process would only last for a day instead of five days, I believe we know what damage detergent can cause to our body, this is part of the problem we are having without knowing.
We are paying dearly for what technology is causing in this generation, there are diseases contracted from the food we are producing, in the olden days food poisoning was never rampant the way we are experiencing it now, our forefathers took time to produce a well suitable raw food for us without causing any harm to the body.
I am not saying technology is bad but we should limit the way we misuse most opportunities we have, technology eases our stress in terms of large farming, we can use modern tools in our farming system but not add chemicals in others to produce foods, we are now living on chemicals not food which was not supposed to be so, we must prioritize each other well being and not to be selfish because of our own self-interest and put other people's life in danger.
In my opinion, I would suggest we should go back to the olden days method of farming without adding chemicals to our farm products. This is my response to this episode of the hivelearners community prompt of #hl-w153e2 which the topic is tagged TECHNOLOGY AND PROFITS
