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Innovation is the key to tackling agrarian crisis


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Manjit S Kang & PPS Pangli
FOR an agricultural system to be considered sustainable, it must produce abundant food without depleting natural resources and polluting the environment. It must not render the future generations bereft of resources to meet their needs. Sustainable agriculture is a system of producing food that is healthy for consumers, humane for workers, provides fair wages to farmers and farm workers, and supports and uplifts rural communities.
While the Green Revolution of the 1960s helped India achieve self-sufficiency in foodgrains and shed its pejorative ‘ship-to-mouth existence’ image, it turned out not to be sustainable, as it depleted our soils of nutrients, increased our dependence on inorganic chemicals, polluted our waters, soil and air, and dried up our water aquifers. Not only that, our crop diversification disappeared, having been replaced by the prevalent rice-wheat monoculture. ....

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MSP ain't broke, don't fix it | The Indian Express


By 1974, the industrious farmers of the “food-bowl” states of Punjab, Haryana, and western UP had brought about self-sufficiency in foodgrain production (mainly in wheat and rice the staple foods of India), ridding the country of the “begging bowl”.
No matter which organisation, policies/rules enacted without taking the affected people on board will surely face resistance. A proactive approach is always better than a reactive one. From the farmers’ standpoint, the ordinances were unfairly promulgated in June 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown, without consulting them. Then the Bills were hurriedly passed during the monsoon session of Parliament. The farmers were already reeling under the ravages of the COVID-19 lockdown. I know first-hand that farmers could not sell their vegetables and fruits because of the lockdown. With the loss of income during the lockdown and the imposition of the new laws, purported to help them, the farmers were hit by a double whammy. The ....

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Focus on lifting India's smallholder farmers out of poverty at webinar


Focus on lifting India s smallholder farmers out of poverty at webinar
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Updated: Dec 12, 2020 04:14 IST
New Delhi [India], December 12 (ANI): East-West Seed, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the Embassy of the Netherlands in India jointly organised a webinar on Friday titled How to lift India s smallholder farmers out of poverty with three distinguished World Food Laureates and giants of agriculture, nutrition and innovation, Dr Simon Groot, Dr Rattan Lal, and Dr Surinder Vasal.
Dr Simon Groot, the founder of East-West Seed, laid the Dutch vegetable seed industry s foundation. He was awarded the World Food Prize in 2019. ....

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