Dear friends

I could not express my joy at seeing this article on Internet.

Another Organics is Possible
A policy in favour of small producers can invigorate Indian farming

By P V Satheesh, Director, Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

My thanks and best wishes to PVS and others who have demystified organic management and come out forcefully against the scientific community that has consistently let Indian farmers down.

I live and work in Delhi. Have adopted a few Panchayats near Patna and in Kullu district to experiment with simple, sustainable farming systems, consistent with local soil conditions, topography and climate. Have been working on these for about five years.

A friend in Australia-Steve Solomon-has devoted his entire life to holistic agriculture and
manages an e-library called Soil and Health. Please do visit this web resource and enjoy the massive collection on sustainable farming. You will also find a section on "A case for
organics", a collection of scientific papers that I contributed to this library that prove that we have no choice but to go organic.

And yes, I have come to fear the charlatans (Mollison, Kuntz, Fukuoka, Jeavons, etc ) who promise that their system of radical agriculture can feed the entire world from the sum total of flowerpots owned by earthlings. Organic farming, and sustainable farming is a lost wisdom that needs to dragged back to the centrestage. Our farmers worked with native wisdom. That wisdom was lost in the white hot heat of chemical farming started foolishly by Leibig and exploited to the hilt by Chemical MNCs.

I saw the poor farmers near Patna (potato and onion farmers) wasting 32% of the total input cost on chemicals, sold casually by neighbourhood retailers, many of these pesticides are known nerve poisons. This case study can be emailed to any person interested in understanding the racket in scientific farming.

With best wishes to every one who believes in sustainable farming.

Arun Shrivastava CMC <arun1951@yahoo.com>