Ecology: Youth and Production
By: Muhammad Ahmed Alfilabi
What does the change mean if it does not provide switches to closed doors, lanterns to illuminate the darkness of sustainable development paths, and upgrade the environment?
Sudanese youth, who were stigmatized as short-sighted, lazy to facilitate life, and passive in dealing with the components of their environment, have achieved a revolution of awareness aimed at change, whose perception is “reaching the goal…”
They have proven that good sowing yields a good plant,” said development expert Ahmed Abu Sin, who spoke of “the revolutionary weather, without which all human issues, concerns, and their environment remain disrupted.”
The momentum of the revolution at all levels resulted in unearthing a youthful orientation towards agricultural production according to scientific knowledge such as organic products we have been hearing about a lot. social media platforms opened up to the initiatives and successes of young men and women who continued to work in silence and suffering throughout the previous era that had been unappreciative of them, their ideas, and visions, as much as it had courted foreign investors who came to consume groundwater reserves in the cultivation of export fodder without their investments interested in operating level, crop composition improvement, etc.
I have seen for myself the experience of integrated farms under the supervision of a group of young graduates of natural resources, agricultural studies, and other related fields, who entered the field of fish farming, in addition to the cultivation of vegetables and fruits, where crops are irrigated with water saturated with fish waste, which constitutes the maximum benefit from the opportunity to recycle water, and the scientific employment of low-input agricultural systems that use this concept, where animal production is integrated with crop production, through the recycling of nutrients by direct use of waste as feed for animal production.
The integrated production system is based on three basic principles: the first of which is the use of all biomaterials, organic materials, and waste instead of disposing of them. The second principle is to obtain at least two products from one type of waste and close the flow of materials and nutrients to achieve full use of any resources without waste a third principle.
According to their specializations, there are many groups of (farmers) between small-scale producers and owners of fish ponds, those who specialized in feed production, and those who are involved in marketing, but the biggest beneficiary – always – are traders who enter farms with their nets, scales, and cars with refrigerated trailers, carrying production to local markets as well as international markets, when and where is demand.
I wondered. Why doesn’t the state finance these young people within the framework of the revolution to raise production and productivity, enable them to use marketing means, and pass laws and regulations that will protect their activities from the encroachment by the market mafia and its monopoly on the means of manufacturing and production, provided that this is done through cooperatives that have begun to be established in light of the need for their existence, and to establish the values of participation in production to facilitate operations, in recognition of their role in improving food security?