Organic on-field research combined with information technology for fast uptake, sustainable, and profitable future using both macro and micro analysis of the system as a whole

Abstract

Though organic farming principles are good in food production, quality, and longterm sustainability; its impacts are only at theoretical level. The very slow rate of its uptake and application makes us rethink the current strategies followed at all levels of the organic cycle. Possible reasons include less representable, intercommunicable and usable data with fewer studies focussed on long term variation parameters on open fields and their effects on the system as a whole. The findings of current research studies based on the micro views of scientific principles with few factors in space-time controlled, semi-controlled and small open field environments, are not quickly adaptable at open field level. As open fields are vastly managed by natural system’s unpredictable and ever-changingbehavior, they are difficult to understand and apply by the practitioners who are tied to the socio-economic factors. Our new research methodology focuses in making both ends meet by using real-time application of latest technologies such as electronic and information technology in the field, easing the handling of data and operations of the organic practitioner at both micro and macro levels. This method, when combined with a macro view and analyses of natural system principles as a whole, helps reduce not only the failures and their causes but also increases the productivity, quality, and sustainability at all spheres of the organic system. The results of the research conducted are recorded keeping the system as a whole entity taken from open field experiments on it. This involves experiments using different combinations of physical (land and water) and biological (ecosystem) factors. Then using those results on humans, their health and socioeconomic impacts are studied to improve the organic system process at all levels.