Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[arjunan <dobighazameen@gmail.com>]

Swaminathan is nothing but a terrorist, his contribution to Indian farmers is the same as George Bush's contribution to the people of Iraq.

 

Arjunan

 

On 1/13/08, Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> 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. I was on an organic farm and was going to get a drink of water from a 400 ft. deep well and was told no way.  The water is pure poison due to chemicals. The reason the "green revolution" was so successful was that it lined the pockets of everyone involved with high profits.  There are no profits in telling the farmers to farm organically, buy nothing. 

 

Ken

TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:

 M.S. Swaminathan, who led the "Green Revolution" of the 1960s that made India self-sufficient in food.  "While the contribution of manufacturing and services is laudable, it is still the farm sector that provides the largest employment in the subcontinent," said Swaminathan, 82, who heads India's National Farmers' Commission.

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