Author(s):
B.K. Senapatia, Arti Parganihab, A.K. Patib, P.K. Panigrahic
Email(s):
bikamsenapati@gmail.com
Address:
School of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University, Flat 102, Anand Villa Apartment, VIP-45, Nayapalli, Bhubaneshwar – 751015, Odisha, India.
School of Life Sciences, Pt. Ravishanakar Shukla University, Raipur – 492010, Chhattisgarh, India
cSustainibility Division, Mahindra Sanyo Special Steel Pvt. Ltd (formerly known as MUSCO), Khopoli – 410216, Maharashtra, India.
Published In:
Volume - 28,
Issue - 1,
Year - 2015
Cite this article:
Senapatia, Parganihab, Patib, and Panigrahic (2015). Sustainable Management of Agriculture with Low Entropy Stategy: Apropos Earthworm. Journal of Ravishankar University (Part-B: Science), 28(1), pp. 1-10.
Journal of Ravishankar University-B, 28, 1-10 (2015)
Sustainable Management of
Agriculture with Low Entropy Stategy: Apropos Earthworm
B.K. Senapatia,*, Arti Parganihab,
A.K. Patib and P.K. Panigrahic
aSchool of Life
Sciences, Sambalpur University, Flat 102, Anand Villa Apartment, VIP-45,
Nayapalli, Bhubaneshwar – 751015, Odisha, India
b aSchool of Life
Sciences, Pt. Ravishanakar Shukla University, Raipur – 492010, Chhattisgarh,
India
cSustainibility
Division, Mahindra Sanyo Special Steel Pvt. Ltd (formerly known as MUSCO),
Khopoli – 410216, Maharashtra, India
*Corresponding Author: bikamsenapati@gmail.com
[Received: 2
March 2015; Revised version received 23 April 2015; accepted 24 April 2015]
Abstract. Sustainability is an attribute of
life and living systems. There is lot of gap between unpredictable and
predictable systems. The latter is sustainable and always remains in sync with
the spatio-temporal variability prevailing in the nature, while the former
manages to keep itself running with high entropy. Conventional agro-technology
is unsustainable. Environmental governance for sustainable production has to be
linked to local diversity of matter, biodiversity, socio cultural practices and
professional knowledge bank. Application of the concept of entropy to
sustainability allows us to consider our system - the earth's environment - as
a thermodynamic unit. Earth with a constant conservation of low-entropy could
remain "organized" against the negative anthropogenic impact.
Earthworm as the plough of nature is known since Darwin (1881) and now known to
be the nature's gadget that reduces entropy through interactions among
biophysical, biochemical and biodiversity milieus. Earthworm as a biological
system is self-organized to fit to the biodiversity complexity, hio-regulation,
bioenergetics, bio-productivity and sustainable production. Here in this
review, earthworm is considered as a representative of biodiversity that
catalyses processes of high to low activation energy for a sustainable system.
Keywords: Earthworm, entropy, sustainability,
low entropy, agriculture, biodiversity.
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