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Potato Crops in Dire Distress and Countermeasures
1. Problems at Hand and the Basic Policy of Our Laboratory
In the world of accelerating globalization, Japan is confronted with several major problems as it enters into the 21st century. In the agricultural sector, the Japanese farmers are working hard to fight a prolonged deep recession and the inroads of the imports on the produce market. But, this is not all. They are increasingly worried about their suspected health problems caused by the harmful chemicals used in farming, and the increasing tendency of young people's move to urban centers leaving their aging parents behind.
Moreover, given the rapid shift of consumer preference of "safe" produce grown with no or little chemicals, not to mention those from the "organic" farming, the conventional farming methods are fast becoming irrelevant for the market of the 21st century. However, today's farmers are flooded with information on wonder chemicals and new farming technologies, making it difficult to decide what to do without seeking advice from reliable experts on which are, and which other are not, scientifically tested and safe.
In the post-World War II Japan, the widespread use of newly developed chemicals in farming spread across the country, sometimes even including plant-improving chemicals. While most of them certainly brought about the expected results, the process inevitably gave rise to the unexpected increase of chemical-resistant microbes and new viruses, against some of which we are finding it difficult to develop effective scientific countermeasures fast enough and cheap enough.
At this Laboratory, we began our development research projects at an early date in anticipation of the rising need in this area, attaching top priority to the prevention of spreading new diseases. Thanks to the cooperation of universities and independent research institutes in conducting reliable field tests supported by public grants, and the cooperative participation of commercial producers in pilot projects, we have achieved a technological breakthrough in the development of a revolutionary technology never used anywhere in the world.
2. Our New Technology and Some of the Test Results
In a nutshell, this technology consists of extracting information from the animate as well as inanimate subjects using our specially developed magnetic recording and memory devices. Then, the harmful information are selectively "reversed" into "non-harmful information," while useful information such as are related to immunity are enhanced before treating soil, plants and seeds with them. Just as tape-recorders and CD cassettes are used to record music and image, these devices read and record the information peculiar to each of the animate and inanimate subjects under scrutiny relating to their health as well as illness in case of the former.
At present, almost all of the lab and field tests conducted at various national and private universities, agricultural experiment stations, and other research centers have been completed producing remarkable results. The exact process in which such information are turned into specific types of waves has not yet been fully explained by theoretical physics because the development of our technology is based upon a new discovery in the field of electromagnetics yet to be explained in scientific terms. At this point in time, therefore, we prefer to use the term "information" instead of "waves" to refer to this phenomenon.
We have consistently emphasized the importance in our research effort, therefore, of originality, replicability and universality in what we do with this novel information technology, especially in the execution of the various stages of field tests in agriculture, including those of de facto commercial scale. Within the span of the last few years, we have produced tangible results from our tests and experiments working with the farms producing spinach, melon, and cow's milk in Hokkaido, rice in Akita Prefecture, tomato, melon, horse radish, and so on in Kanagawa Prefecture. In addition to inactivating viruses and chemicals-resistant microbes, our formula has also been proven to remarkably enhance the existing immunofunctions.
Infectious Potato Disease Brought under Control in 1998
During 1998, we received remarkable harvest reports from the potato growers who participated in our preliminary field texts of the countermeasures against the so-called "Sokabyo," an infectious disease rapidly spreading as the worst headache among the potato growers in Japan. The first field test of our information technology in combating this disease was conducted at a private potato farm of Mr. Mine, the mayor of the township of Aino, Nagasaki Prefecture. The experiment produced some encouraging results, but since then, we have made some remarkable new scientific discoveries while also making tangible progress in the applied field of life science, and decided to move ahead with a new series of field tests using the most recently improved technology.
The concrete steps of application are as described below.
The last set of field tests were conducted both at Mr. Mine's potato field in the township of Aino and that of the Arima Produce Farm in the township of Minamiarima of Nagasaki Prefecture, using in both cases two contrasting strips; (1) "untreated strip" (by information method) but treated the seeds with conventional chemical bath and in-season chemical spray, and (2) "test strip" with the seed potatoes soaked in memory water and the soil sprayed with the same. The tests strips ranged from 100 to 1,000 square meters in size.
Results Obtained
In both cases, the incidence of the "Soka" disease dropped dramatically, while showing a remarkable increase in harvest volume. In the case Minamiarima, the average per-plant yield showed a whopping threefold increase, while the township of Aino test field also showed clearly meaningful increase. While the Aino test fields production was over and above the average record of all potato farms in Nagasaki prefecture, Compared to this, Minamiarima's scored was far above the prefectural average of Nagasaki coming close to the reputed high yield of Hokkaido potato fields.
