Around
3,00,000 years ago, man started walking the Earth.
As a hunter-gatherer.
Over time, he learned to walk straight. He taught himself how to use his hands, and then tools. He discovered fire. His brain grew, and it helped him use his newly learned skills to make his life on Earth better and better. This continuous process of evolution soon helped him become the dominant species on the planet.
Then, only about 12,000 years ago, he harnessed the power of plants and taught himself how to domesticate them, farm them, and get from them the certainty of present and future sustenance.
Agriculture empowered him to be able to work his brain on other things instead of on how to find himself the next meal. It was nothing short of a revolution in the history of mankind. The Neolithic Revolution.
Man
was no longer an animal living to survive and breed, but a human part of
societies, industries, arts, cultures, sciences, medicine, religion, and more.
During
these years of evolution, man had a reasonably good working relationship with
nature. Nature gods and nature worship were parts of human society. He
domesticated plants and developed many new varieties through breeding. But, by
and large, he cultivated them with the aid of natural resources and forces.
It
had taken man thousands of years to become 1 billion humans by 1800. Then he
raced to 2 billion by 1900, and 8 billion by the start of the 21st century.
It
was evident that the 19th century was a tipping point in human evolution. Man
went on to develop an understanding of chemicals in a very new and different
manner. He started the mass scale production of chemicals. He started making
synthetic chemicals. He started the mass scale extraction of oil and minerals.
Another thing was growing at a very fast pace by now – Human Arrogance.
Arrogantly, man started wanting to control Nature. His approach to her changed, from milking, to exploiting her.
This changed the nature of Agriculture too. Farming became an industry. Man started growing only what he wanted to grow in order to maximise output. He introduced synthetic fertilisers to see output rise substantially.
An industry hates to waste resources. If fertiliser was provided for a particular crop of choice, how could man let other plants feed on that? So, any other plant species growing on the field, he classified as weed. Then he invented weedicides and herbicides to get rid of them.
Man started believing that, in order to survive, plants needed him before they needed Nature. He started forgetting that nurturing plants did not necessarily mean starting to live their lives for them. He started deciding what was good for them while actually having absolutely no natural clue at all.
Pestilence, weather extremes, and environmental calamities, were natural forces. Plants, which existed long before man did, knew, through the “instinct” in each of their cells, that such problems would come, and would keep coming. And that it would then know what to do best to wage war to come out stronger and survive.
With arrogance in mind, and chemicals in hand, man decided to fight the plants’ wars for them. After all, wasn’t he the master whose job it was to protect his subjects?
He started killing pests using toxic chemical weapons, which he had by then started making plentifully. His logic being… the more poisonous, the more effective.
Somewhere along the way, as his brain developed, man had lost sight of his common sense. Only too late did he just start realising that toxic to pests could mean toxic to him as well as the environment too. He found that he was killing off all things good along with the bad. His narrow focus, with a not-at-all-thought-out plan, just did not make any sense at all.
So, what could be done then, you ask. It is easier to see a problem than to find a solution, you say.
How do you feed 8 billion people in any other way?
MitraSena has an answer. An answer that did not come out of just the need to answer that question, but out of deep thinking followed by years of research-based contemplation. Here is the logic of it…
We
depend on plants for sustenance.
Naturally,
we nurture them in an organised manner.
We
farm.
We
sow the best quality seeds and saplings on time, we water, we harvest, and we
give back to the soil what the plants took from it, ready to sow the next
generation of saplings again.
And…
instead of playing GOD/Nature by fighting the enemies of our precious plants
ourselves… we shed our arrogance and start believing in our plants’
capabilities to fight for themselves!
It
becomes easier to believe in our plants once we remember that they are the ones
sustaining us in the first place.
What
we can do in return is SUPPORT them in the fights they are better equipped to
fight on their own.
By
making the plants stronger by restoring the health of the soil that houses
them.
By
strengthening the warriors through food and armour, and then leaving them in a
better position to keep their enemies at bay.
By supporting plants through… EMPOWERING them!
This is the essence of the philosophy that is MitraSena. This is the mission of the brand that is MitraSena. This, simply, is what MitraSena is all about.
THE
EMPOWERMENT OF PLANTS.