Open Problem, Hidden Solution: How To Stop The Degradation of Soil Fertility And Quality In Order To Acquire Higher Food Crop Yields

Do you know that there's a farming practice that solves a major problem for food crop farmers — and at the same time creates an even bigger problem for them? Sounds complicated, right? Yes, there is. In this article, we'll break this down and then reveal the hidden solution.

The Farmer's First Goal

After planting crops, a farmer's first priority is to get rid of anything that could affect the crops' growth, yield, and harvest. This leads most farmers to a popular practice they see as "the solution": waging war against one of the biggest enemies of crop yield — rodents.

The method they turn to is spraying rodenticide chemicals to kill and prevent rodents that eat food crops and stunt their growth.

But within this so-called solution lies a much bigger problem.

The Hidden, Bigger Problem

In my strong opinion, many food crop farmers aren't aware that repeated spraying of rodenticide chemicals significantly degrades overall soil health, fertility, and quality. It does this by:

Killing beneficial microorganisms
Altering nutrient cycling
Disrupting soil structure over time

Common examples of these rodenticides include Metal Phosphides (Zinc Phosphide, Aluminum Phosphide) and Strychnine.

When soil health and quality are diminished this way, it leads to uncontrollably low crop yield and harvest — a decline that extends into the future.

Why This Problem Can't Be Solved Chemically

This is the real problem: a natural one that no chemical can fix. Soil must be spontaneously nutritious and fertile for crops to thrive. But once its nutrients and fertility have been heavily degraded by repeated chemical spraying, it becomes nearly impossible to restore the soil to its natural, God-given form.

In short: the farmers' solution to rodent mayhem creates an even bigger problem — one that needs to be solved naturally, without side effects and without creating yet another problem.

Rodenticides work effectively in the short term by preventing rodents from destroying crops. But the future of the farm becomes unsafe — the fix is temporary, because the very soil that would produce both present and future crops is now degraded.

The Naturally Proposed Solution: The Traditional Scarecrow Method

As a farmer, after planting your crops:

Source a good amount of wood and use it to build human-shaped mannequins.
Stuff the mannequins with straw or hay.
Dress them in old farm clothes.

Once dressed, these mannequins will look exactly like farmers actively working the field — causing rodents to desert the farm.

Proof From Experience

As a farmer whose mother is also a farmer of both cash crops and food crops, we've applied this method ourselves — along with other villagers while I was living in the village — and it worked effectively.

Why This Method Wins

The scarecrow method is spontaneous and has no harsh post-chemical effect on the soil. It stops the degradation of soil fertility and quality, allowing farmers to achieve high food crop yields — both now and in the future — without any side effects, unlike the spraying of rodenticide chemicals.

Try this method today. (See visual example of the scarecrow method above.)