<jats:p>Based on the analysis of information about plants, the article reveals the unfoundedness of the biological position that plants are autotrophy. Because of this, this provision is a dogma. This dogma prevents knowledge of the nature of fertility and the identification of the reasons for the regression of agriculture. The tenacity of the dogma is explained by the reproduction in the field of education of personnel for the governing bodies of the economic body of states.</jats:p>