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The just-concluded World Soil Science Congress in Glasgow, Britain, in August emphasised a crucial point that the world is losing much of its fertile land because of excessive soil degradation due to intense chemical farming, euphemistically known as the ‘Green Revolution’. Millions of acres of land all over the globe are turning out to be unsustainable due to soil
The government is pushing natural farming across India, without the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. But experts disagree on whether this is the right policy.