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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] India: Farmers’ Meet On Organic Farming
  • Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:46:18 -0600

Farmers’ Meet On Organic Farming Gets Off To A Start In Dehradun Today
ASHOK B SHARMA Posted online: Monday, August 02, 2004 at 0009 hours IST
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=64918

NEW DELHI, AUG 1: Country’s growers engaged in organic farming are
converging at Ramgarh village in Dehradun district in Uttaranchal for a
two-day conference begining on August 2 for formulating an ‘India Organic
Vision 2020.’ The vision document will enable Indian farmers to successfully
tap the $37 billion global market for organic foods.


The conference will also deliberate on the issue of recent suicides committed
by farmers on account of being debt-trapped and use of spurious pesticides
and fertilisers leading to crop failure. The event named ‘Vasundhara : A
National Gathering of Organic Communities’ is being hosted by Navdanya
Biodiversity Farm in village Ramgarh in Uttaranchal.

More than 250 organic growers, seed savers and biodiversity conservers from
Kerala, Karnataka, TN, MP, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab,
UP, Uttaranchal, Orissa, Bihar, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh are slated to
attend the event.

Speaking to FE, Dr Vandana Shiva of Navdanya said “we will work together to
strengthen the solidarity among organic communities, identifying the
strengths of the organic movement and the problems faced by organic growers.
We will also set an India Organic Vision 2020.

The objective of the Vision 2020 will be to put small and marginal farmers
and organic farming at the centre of India’s agriculture policy.”

The organic farmers believe that much of the cases of suidicies committed by
farmers are due to the use of suprious fertilisers and pesticides which has
lead to crop failure. In such cases the farmers are unable to pay back the
loans and become debt-trapped. Therefore, the alternate way is to go for
organic farming which is less expensive, environment friendly and ensures
higher yields.

The factor productivity decreases as the soil is degraded due to excessive
use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. The crop productivity and
production gets plateaued after a certain level. But when the soil is
restored back to health after use of different varieties of biofertilisers
through organic farming, the crop productivity marks an increase.




  • [Livingontheland] India: Farmers’ Meet On Organic Farming, Tradingpost, 08/26/2004

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