India witnessed self-sufficiency in
food production due to the grand success of Green revolution
introduced in 1960’s by the advent of the 20th century, the
soil health was completely lost due to the
rampant use of the agrochemicals. Instead of
undertaking a new anthropogenic venture to deal with
the problem, it was suggested that the farmers should
go back to the arms of the nature and take up
organic farming to restore the loss. While few farmers
readily took up this suggestion, some of them
showed a great deal of reluctance as the problems of
productivity, costs and profits overshadowed
their decisions. Recent statistics point India to be
amongst the top 10 countries, having maximum land
under organic cultivation. The organic market in India
looks quite promising but it needs an additional
backup from the Indian government to combat the
reluctance of Indian farmers towards organic
farming.
Author
(s) Details
Dr. S. Roy
Department of Environmental Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune
University (Formerly University of Pune), Ganeshkhind, Pune- 411 007, India.
K. N. Dhumal
Department
of Environmental Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University (Formerly
University of Pune), Ganeshkhind, Pune- 411 007, India.
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