What Zynga’s Farmville Could Do to Support Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable agricultural practices are ones in which every by-product of a farm operation is reused to boost agricultural output. Farms that make use of animal manure as fertilizer, use more modern plowing techniques, use alternative energy sources, or find other ways to increase field output or reuse materials is good for the environment, good for the world, and helps reduce the loss of precious resources.

Farmville by Zynga Could Offer Ecofriendly Sprinklers with Manure Fertilizers

Many farmers in the United State thin manure into a tea and then feed it through their irrigation system to provide nutrients that boost farm production without the expense of refined gas fertilizers.

Fields Could Earn Credits for Lying Fallow During a Two Week Vacation in Zynga's Farmville

One practice that many farmers take advantage of to boost their fields productivity is to allow fields to rest, lying fallow with shredded corn husks, wheat chaff, etc. Fallow fields also retain more water during dry seasons which makes it an ecofriendly practice that helps reduce top soil loss to winds.

Farmville by Zynga Could Offer Nitrogen Building Cover Crops as a Crop to Grow

There are a variety of plants that farmer's plant on their fields that produce nitrogen rather than use nitrogen while keeping out weeds. These plants aren't harvested, instead they are plowed under and act as a fertilizer on the fields, a very eco-friendly practive that helps save our precious resources.

Worms Could be Sold for Use in Mulch Pits in Zynga's Farmville

Small mulch containers that use earth worms to speed the breakdown of fiber into rich soil could be used in Zynga's Farmville to help promote eco-friendly practices. Using mulch helps enrich soil while keeping reusable waste from edible foods out of waste recycling centers that bury waste with the side effect of producing methane gas.

Zynga's Farmville Could Offer Modern Low Angle Tills and Solar Powered Farm Equipment

Farmville by Zynga could offer ecofriendly model plow that cause less break up of soil and thereby reducing the amount of soil subject to weeds and requiring less pesticides making it a highly encourage sustainable agriculture practice. Solar powered equipment also makes use of a reusable power resource and may encourage manufacturers to break into using solar equipment on farms.

Since Farmville by Zynga is played around the world, Zynga should get on board the sustainable agricultural practice bandwagon and offer sustainable practice offerings on their popular game.