Natural Farming for Sustainable and Transforming Agriculture

Abstract

The post green revolution based input intensive agriculture practices provided enormous opportunities by offering good yields under those challenging circumstances of the country. It made the sustainable availability of food to ever increasing population and also increased the per capita income of the farmers. These industrial based farm technologies portrayed the resource poor Indian farms with enormous market opportunities, besides mitigating hunger and malnutrition in the short term. However, the post green revolution, has also many unintended but harmful consequences on soil health, water, biodiversity, traditional varieties, pollinators, food pattern, farmers’ economy and human and environment health. Such situations called for new interventions to be innovated, tested and piloted before implementation.