"Green farming" - a set of technologies of the future

E.M Gusev

doi:10.1051/bioconf/20213607003

Abstract

The purpose of the work was to demonstrate the evolution of agricultural technologies, which leads to the orientation of agriculture towards the use of nature-like farming, using the example of the human civilization development. It was shown that in the XX century, the stage of development of soil cultivation technologies, associated with the transition from "gray" extensive technologies for managing natural resources, which were focused on momentary economic feasibility, to non-traditional farming technologies, began. It was demonstrated that a natural transition is currently taking place from the technology development strategy based on the principle of maximum entropy production by G. Ziegler, to the strategy of minimum entropy production by I. Prigozhin, which is based on the rationalization of the use of the planet's resources. It was confirmed that at the present stage humanity has approached the change of technologies from the extensive development and use of natural resources to rationalizing their use − "green farming", which is characterized by a more natural agricultural technology of soil cultivation; mulching its surface with plant residues which leads to a decrease in soil erosion and unproductive evaporation; minimizing soil compaction; reducing the need for irrigation; reducing the use of herbicides through the use of cover crops, etc.

Highlights

Living organisms and their communities on Earth, being dissipative structures [21], evolve at different stages of their development within the framework of two fundamental physical laws − Ziegler’s principle of maximum entropy production [14, 30, 38] and Prigozhin's principle of minimum entropy production [19], the priority of which changes during the emergence, evolution and destruction of various biospheric structures
The above brief analysis of the evolution of agrotechnical technologies that took place on Earth during the Holocene period confirms the conclusion arising from the theory of dissipative structures: at the present stage, the development of technologies for agriculture and the use of water resources related to agriculture, mankind has come to an inevitable change in technologies from extensive development and use of natural resources to their rational use "green agriculture"
At the present stage of the Holocene, mankind found itself in a situation of the effect of the principle of I

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Introduction

Living organisms and their communities on Earth, being dissipative structures [21], evolve at different stages of their development within the framework of two fundamental physical laws − Ziegler’s principle of maximum entropy production [14, 30, 38] and Prigozhin's principle of minimum entropy production [19], the priority of which changes during the emergence, evolution and destruction of various biospheric structures. Current sharp deterioration of the environment state caused by the increased consumption of natural resources by man, which affected the safety of the existence of the very "crown of nature" on Earth, is due to the orientation of mankind in the previous Holocene period to the Ziegler's principle, which determines the intensified exploitation of the planet's resources due to the creation of so-called "gray" [33] (technosphere) technologies for natural resource management, focused on the momentary economic feasibility and philosophy of increase in consumption In this regard, as shown in [21] on the basis of the dissipative structures theory, humanity is doomed to transition due to natural homeostasis to non-traditional (naturebased, "green" [33]) technologies for managing natural resources, focused on the Prigozhin's strategy of minimum entropy production. Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy: Life, Earth, and Beyond, 264 (2005)

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