Rural employment

Organic Farming: Breaking the Puritan Myth and Searching for the Truth

February 3, 2018September 20, 2020 Ragesh Dipu Agro-capitalism, Chemical fertilizers, Conventional farming, Crop production, farmer, Global food market, Green Revolution, Healthy food, Integrated Pest Management system, Livestock feed, Organic farming, Organic food products, Pesticides, Resistant to pests, Rural employment, Scientific farming, Scientific Farming Methods, Technological monopoly, vertical farming

While the outset of organic farming was a conscious reaction of farmers around the world against the high yielding crop varieties, chemical fertilizers and pesticides and their disastrous social, ecological and economic consequences, it is interesting to analyse the role of organic farming in India, a country experienced the best and worst of the green revolution.