The need to be sustainable in agricultural production has become an increasingly important requirement for working in food production.

Supermarket chains and trade with developed countries in general have become more demanding not only regarding the external quality of the products they trade with their suppliers, but also their internal composition, limiting and controlling the use of active ingredients in plant protection products and chemical molecules found in fruits nourished with inorganic fertilizers containing high levels of heavy metals.

Using regenerative agriculture as a strategy to meet these demands allows not only fulfilling the above, but also improving the long-term viability of agricultural projects of all kinds, with the improvement of soils and their microbial flora.

In this way, crop nutrition improves not only in the content of macro and microelements, but also allows for an increase in the nutritional density of food, thus achieving better contents of minerals and secondary metabolites fundamental in the composition of molecules that we now acquire through food supplements that were ancestrally contained in agricultural products.

The pandemic caused difficulties in shipping freight and therefore an increase in the transportation costs of inorganic fertilizers and other phytosanitary products from manufacturing countries to consuming countries.

This reality forced us to seek alternative solutions to nourish our crops, leading us to use tools that existed in the past, but which had been discarded in many cases due to convenience, lack of knowledge and conventional practices.

However, for decades there has been sufficient research and concrete evidence supporting the use of organic matter decomposition processes to benefit all types of crops. The positive effects of minimal or no-till farming, the presence of plant cover crops that improve microbial life, soil infiltration and its variability, and the incorporation of animal grazing, among many others, are well known. These natural processes begin primarily with microbial life in the soil, and then ascend through the animal and plant kingdoms in different food chains.

The development and, obviously, the perpetuation of this type of life in the soil depends on the presence of water, but also largely on human intervention through the rational use or definitive elimination of inorganic fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides, among others.

The above does not mean that what man has created is useless and should be eliminated, but rather that the way in which it is used should be improved, more rationally and in harmony with our environment and all the living beings that inhabit it.

Every living being, even those we traditionally consider pests or plagues in crops, has a purpose: to take care of organisms in decline. This decline is caused by human intervention, especially by the elimination of microbiome life in both the soil and on foliage through the indiscriminate use of chemicals on both.

This absence of microbial life, in addition to the indiscriminate use of mineral salts, has generated nutritional imbalances in crops, as well as pH and sap sugar levels that are harmful to the crops, with pests and diseases being the symptoms of its existence.

The above refers not only to productivity, but to the greater purpose we should give to agricultural production, which is to produce food that is medicine for man, the reason for its existence as another link in the trophic chain on our planet.

Today, we have the knowledge to achieve these balances in plants; we only lack the will and discipline to learn more about what happens internally within them and their environment. There are very useful tools for this, including:

1. Microbiological analysis of soils.
2. Chemical analysis of soil.
3. Analysis of Saturated Pasta.
4. Sap analysis, due to its similarity to the blood tests that we humans use to have certainty regarding the functioning of our body and internal metabolic processes.
5. Analysis of widely known leaf tissues.

The overwhelming technological development that has taken place in recent decades has also been present in physiology and analytics, generating new knowledge and specialized nutrition strategies.

Therefore, all we lack is the will and discipline to incorporate ancient cultivation techniques, but with greater knowledge and technology, moving from guessing what is happening to the plants to knowing for sure what they really need .

Therefore, if we truly understand that we have a great opportunity to improve our quality of life on Earth and for all species, we only need to

to understand and be aware that we are a species that is also regenerating.

Renzo Canepa Gutierrez Chile renzo@agrocanepa.cl - + 56 9 79053241 Agro Canepa SpA