[Terrapreta] The Nature of the Beast opposing a healthy planet

[M. Michael Crown]

To my mind, this tale, from the Kusa Seed Society catalogue, shows the true nature of the power-mongers in charge.



 India’s Miracle Seeds.   
Abstract.  "This is a true story about world hunger and the heroic accomplishments of one human being, an agricultural-genetic genius, to deliver a practical solution.  Beginning with landrace stocks of indigenous food-barley and employing classical “old school” methods of hand-crossing, a deep pool of agronomically-sophisticated food-barley plants was created, then exhaustively scientifically tested and proofed.  A pipeline was readied to deliver the seeds for these plants to the poorest farmers on the planet.  

“The new plants were highly biologically efficient  capable of high grain yield under low-input and stress conditions.  Nutritionally rich in protein and lysine, the plants are adapted to low-fertility, poor irrigation, and tolerant of alkaline and saline soils, with the capability of yielding 5,000 pounds of grain per acre.”  A major national scientific program had yielded a genuine solution to resolve national and global hunger via a viable set of “miracle seeds” for dispossessed mini-farmers struggling to reach the bottommost rung of the ladder.  Inspected and confirmed by the elite accoladed leaders of Western agronomy’s “green revolution,” the new agricultural invention shone bright with promise.  

And then, the bottom fell out.  Human avarice staged a violent “scientific assassination”  (the scientific creator of the plants had his career up-ended), production fields holding the irreplaceable seedling genetic-stocks were tractored-down (disked-in at sunset) and the entire foodgrain project was savagely destroyed.  Five of the foodgrain “miracle barley” strains survived and are presented in 
the Seed Section of this Catalog.  Here is the true story of historic-scale, genuine “good work” and the dark forces that rose up to stop it.   A critical contribution to the literature on the issue of world hunger.  “The seed story of the century.  A must read.”  

11,000 words.  42 footnotes.  
Bibliography.  Profusely illustrated.  2000.   


Michael Crown 

What we do echoes in Eternity...

"There are more things in heaven and earth, 
Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" 

Hamlet      


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