A research team consisting of the University of

At the end of the year, I have to post food or party photos, but I think it will lose its shape if I do this, but I'm trying to overdo it because it's a topic of interest.

A research team consisting of the University of Zurich, the University of Basel, Agroscope, and the Institute of Organic Research in Switzerland published in the journal Nature Microbiology that inoculated soil with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and dendritic fungi increased the yield of corn by 12 to 40%.

Agricultural research is very difficult to write. You have to be good at microorganisms, but you also have to demonstrate on 320 hectares of farmland in the field. That could take years, too. Only then will you be able to write a paper that will only be published in a Nature sister paper. In the world where we evaluate this by the number of papers, there will be no science and technology that can be used. That's why our agricultural technology has nothing much to use. It's gone sideways again.

In grains, productivity is generally improved by about 1% per year. It's thanks to science and technology. Of course, that doesn't happen in our country. It's a relief if we keep the status quo. Considering the climate, pests, soil degradation, and reduced agricultural investment, that won't work either. It shouldn't be so cynical at the end of the year… But this study quickly increased the yield by more than 12 to 40% by inoculating fungi. It is analyzed that the inhibition of fungal pathogens had a major impact.

Agriculture is very difficult to study, and it fits well under limited conditions, but the results are different because environmental conditions are all different on the field. This field test was conducted in 54 fields and 1 million pyeong in Switzerland, and of course, the results came out well in some fields and others didn't. In order to analyze them, experimental design and factor analysis are very important, and there are too many variables. That's why experimental statistics came from agriculture. We used multivariate statistical analysis to analyze the causal relationship of numerous variables such as soil factor 52, field 54, treatment level, and changes in biomass. A similar artificial intelligence technique has been used in agriculture for a long time.

I looked through the papers and found out that we did field demonstration in 2018, and now the paper is published. It took six years. Agricultural research is usually like this. So in Korea, everyone only studies in the laboratory. The university's assessment is based on papers, and if you do such research, you will be fired. How much research would it cost to do such an empirical research? It's not easy to imagine. It's impossible to think about the research costs per agricultural project in Korea. It's not easy to get research funds unless it's a robot or a smart farm. Oh! Next year, I'll fly out. It doesn't matter. It won't be possible to do field research like this anyway.

Oh! And it doesn't matter anyway, even if these products are developed, they won't be sold in Korea. Whether they work or not, local governments solve many problems for free, and there are few markets because the farmhouse is small. I didn't mean to write it like this. I just wanted to introduce a little bit of a monumental study on the future of food, but now my true feelings have been revealed. Amateurs. It's a fun end of the year.