Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen@earthlink.net>]

At 1/13/2008, you wrote:
> What someone needs to explain to
> him is that it made India self-sufficient in the short term but damaged
> it for the long term with poisoned water and soil due to the chemicals
> the government provided almost free to farmers. 

The so called Green Revolution was possible only with massive inputs of
fossil energy, fuel for the tractors and water pumps, natural gas for the
fertilizers, oil for the chemicals, etc.  It also required massive
amounts of water.  The net result was indebtedness to the providers
and ever larger industrialized food producers, all totally
unsustainable.

Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com