Ancient Indian Tradition of Agriculture and Food Sharing
The undoubted and perhaps unintended – or unforeseen – ill-effects associated with the
conventional green revolution package of practices has compelled both farmers and governments to
look more favourably at organic farming, which appears dissociated with any of these deadly
impacts.
Similarly, critical evaluation of aspects of “modern” agriculture – particularly its costs and its
inbuilt unsustainability associated with non-renewal resources like fertilisers based on imported
petrochemicals – are leading to a felt need to take a relook at the varied practices associated with
indigenous or traditional agriculture which cost little or nothing at all. It is also a given that prior to
1966, the use of deadly pesticides to deal with problem insects simply did not exist.
Read / Download entire article
The author Claude Alvares is an environmentalist based in Goa, India. He is the editor of the Other India
Press and the Director of the Goa Foundation.
First published on the author’s blog, this version from Indiafacts
Story Categories
Explore Stories
Stories by Location
Events
Recent Posts
-
A legally guaranteed MSP will not hit exports
Farm shipments form a small part of the total production and operate independently of the support prices regime When farmers’ movement in India raises a demand for a legally guaranteed MSP (minimum support price), there is often a counter argument posed about how this would affect India’s agricultural export competitiveness. India’s agriculture exports were estimated […]
-
Digital control: how Big Tech moves into food and farming (and what it means)
Undermining agroecology and local food systems
-
‘Mere Paas Sarkaar Hai’
‘No reform can succeed that does not seek to strengthen the position of the weak and the excluded.’
-
Kerala artistes spread awareness on farmer rights
Samskarika Sahithi has become the first cultural body to come out creatively in support of the striking farmers.
-
Where Camels Take to the Sea
How will all of those kharais fare in a region that has become less hospitable to them?