It can rightly be said that agriculture is a sector marginalized from the proposals that accelerate its slow rise, when all the natural and conjunctural conditions for its development exist, but those who offer political illusions are not interested either; However, agricultural soils seem to have been elevated to the highest expression in Article 409 of the 2008 Constitution, which is in some respects denigrated but ecologically redeemable due to the declaration of the preservation of agricultural soils as a public interest and a national priority, which refers to fertile arable areas . In addition, several laws obligate the state to advance plans for the conservation and restoration of degraded land.

The regeneration we are talking about is not only a return to the original empty capacity of arable land, but also includes the alternative of increasing the productivity of depleted lands, which have reduced their chemical and physical fertility, and above all their biological wealth, turning them into natural entities, without the capacity to feed plants, with a lack micro and macro organisms essential for plant nutrition, with impoverished harvests that determine the deterioration of peasant life and lead to a significant reduction in the food supply for the world’s population.

The state failed in the lukewarm plans it set, requiring a firm decision of the private business community to get involved with patriotic fervor, promoting themselves, in a sincere community of goals with groups of farmers who love the land, and to strengthen the current towards a new agriculture that starts from the care of the substrate and advocates the ambitious regeneration of fully renewable areas, such as abandoned areas bordering the sea and highlands that, being now unproductive, can be reintegrated into sustainable agriculture. activity of short-term or perennial crops.

Argentine television collects comments that proudly show the promotion of malting barley crops, rescued from wasteland and abandoned areas, without vegetation, completely rehabilitated, intermediary agreements for the safe purchase of crops at profitable prices, with technical assistance and superior yields, low use of pesticides and almost no industrial fertilizers . This process, which starts with improving the soil, has managed to add more followers, happy about abundant crops, willing to continue on this path towards a new agriculture, less harmful to the environment, carbon capture and effective means of neutralizing the impact of climate change. Their crops are identified with a regenerative organic certificate that increases their price.

Bayer, a multinational company, proposed to reduce the emissions of polluting gases caused by the production of pesticides by 30% by 2030. We are sure that Ecuadorian farmers would see with hope that the political parties would accept this new and innovative agriculture within their principles, which would be a sure solution for supplying the planet with nutrients. (OR)