India’s pesticide industry is worth billions of dollars, but it has caused major health problems in some communities The Green Revolution swept across India in the 1960s and 1970s, changing it from a nation begging for food aid to a top cotton and grain producer. But ‘Green’ did not refer to organic farming. Instead, politicians, […]
By promoting organic farming, this organization (Navdanya) hopes to help Indian farmers become self-sufficient By Rudraneil Sengupta. livemint.com Fri, Oct 21 2011 Thakur Das, 62, sifts through unhusked grains of basmati on the terrace of his two-storeyed house on the outskirts of Dehradun. The floor of the terrace is a carpet of gold—his rice harvest […]