farming policy, Kerala is nowhere in the picture as far as the use of
bio-pesticides is concerned. If 12 districts in Andhra Pradesh have
become inclined towards farming using bio-pesticies, why is Kerala not
moving towards it asks Devinder Sharma of forum for biodiversity and
food security, New Delhi. It is the time that states follow the
success stories from AP where the Punkula model produced 350 quinals
of pesticide-free chillies a couple of years ago and has begun to
spread to more villages, he said. Sharma was in the city recently to
talk about bio-pesticide management.With the technical support from
the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA) and the government
support to market the agricultural products including vegetables,
chilli, redgram, cotton and paddy of the small amd marginal farmers,
more than 10 lakh hectares of land will soon be farmed under the Non
–Pesticidal Management (NPM)."The West has come out with very strict
rules against the pesticides. Recently Japan which accepts only
organic products is checking the DNA of genetically cultivated
products for contamination. If that is the story in Andhra Pradesh,
then the countries's most versatile farmer, from Punjab is not behind.
The New Indian Express,9th December 2008.
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