Organic Farming - Promoters
Nammalvar, veteran organic agriculturist and general secretary of the
Organic Farmers' Association of Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu Tamizhina Vazhviyal Movement.
Mr. Nammalvar left an agriculture research station in Kovilpatty in 1965 on a mission to take agriculture back to the farmers.
His Speech
Sensitisation Campaign
A sensitisation campaign to spread the message of sustainable agriculture is what is needed immediately. Media and non-governmental organisations should play a big role in making agriculture attractive to young people.
Agriculture is about 15,000 years old in India. Fifty years of Green Revolution has taken us to a position where we have realised that is no
longer sustainable. The problem lay in the fact that the Green Revolution tried to turn agriculture into agri-business.
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