Submitted by kuma2020 on Thu, 13/12/2012 - 12:04
A debate needs to be started on organic farming.India has covered miles in different sectors but still it has been lagging behind in organic farming.Govt is paying more attention and also encourging farmers for organic farming.There are so many issues have been arised in consumption of organic products and it has not yet confirmed the different side effects of organic products.BT brinjal has already created sensation.On the other hand organic farming is costly affair.Organic products available in the markets are really costlier.More research as well as awareness needed.
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Organic farming
Now a days chemical farming is not a cheap-affair.Over the last ten years the cost of fertilizers have increased by 388% and so like pesticides and seeds.So one can imagine the cost of production but the farmers are not getting remunerative price. MSP is meant for some selected crops. There are a lot of crops left out side the perview of the Minimum Support Price Scheme.The UN sponsored IAASTD where India was a signatory, has given their verdict after 4 year long studies that business as usual is not an option.The chemical farming cannot feed the world in short run. It is a matter of perception. Organic farming does not favour monoculture and it measures the prodution and productivity of the whole field unlike garin yield of a particular crop. Moreover, as the subject is not taught in the mainstream agricultural institutes it is not clear to the proponents of chemical agriculture. They try to to explain it in terms of chemical farming and that is wrong and misleading.I have doing organic farming in a govt farm for the last 11 years and I have found that organic farming is very cheaper. During the initial conversion phase of 2 years the yield declined but it goes up to suatainble production level.If we think that organic prouduce is costly then we are to request the health department to reduce the cost of medical expenses especially for cancer.Some companies are trying to project it as a costly affair.Organic farming can feed the world. Pl see Why poverty- Vandana Shiva in BBC and www.cintdis.org, Indian Agaraian Crisis.
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