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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s natural, organic farming strategy for rice and wheat -K Nagaiah, G Srimannarayana, and Phaniraj G

India’s natural, organic farming strategy for rice and wheat -K Nagaiah, G Srimannarayana, and Phaniraj G

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published Published on Mar 15, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 19, 2022

-Down to Earth

This can help in targeting global export market, thereby feeding the world population and getting valuable foreign exchange for the country

India is predominantly agrarian — 80 per cent of the population is directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture. Rice and wheat are the staple for 90 per cent of the country’s people. 

Till the early 1960’s, the predominant mode of cultivation was what is now called “organic farming”, with no synthetic fertilisers or pesticides available or known. 

At that time, farmers relied on cow dung, twigs of leguminous plants like Crotalaria juncea, Tephrosia, neem and jeelugu. These materials mulched the fields ploughed for rice plantation. Oil cakes of groundnut, castor, neem were also used which is a good source of nitrogen. 

Since the use of urea from the beginning of the 1960s, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium-based fertilisers became available after the establishment of industrial plants at Sindri (Bihar) Udyog Mandal (Kerala).

Fortunately, in this decade, synthetic pesticides like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), endrin, and others entered the market. Another spectacular discovery was that of the high-yielding hybrid wheat and rice. The high-yielding wheat was discovered by Norman Borlaug (Nobel Prize winner) and was rapidly adopted by India largely due to the pioneering work of Dr Swaminathan and MV Rao. 

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Down to Earth, 15 March, 2022, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/agriculture/india-s-natural-organic-farming-strategy-for-rice-and-wheat-81961?fbclid=IwAR1RA803tOSCpSj_cc1nZvPL_lDolu05azBoWc_D5qWCZoNQ5fG99Dwf11A


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