Today I went to a shop for organic food which is considered to be meant for elite. The 200 gm grapes are worth $60. Which is surely unbelievable as the crops which we used to make organic in the past has become luxury today. The biggest joke of this food is they are packed in plastic bags, what a disaster!
We can sell anything on the name of organic and get away with any stupidity. I did ask the shop keepers that why food is packed in plastic wraps and boxes, he couldn’t reply.
Let’s growing demand for organic food. Ask #organic food without plastic wraps.
The irony and responsibility of the current political pressure for organic agriculture are that, according to research by Rabo India, nearly 65 percent of the country’s cropped section is irrigated and previously considerably “organic by neglect.” With this moderately discrediting term, they suggest that modest farmers, stationed often in the Eastern and North-Eastern areas of the country, ought no alternative besides to farm outdoors synthetic manure or pesticides. Though that is valid in several circumstances, it is likewise true that a notable quantity of them have decided to grow naturally, as their ancestors possess performed for thousands of years.
Numerous have witnessed for themselves the consequences of synthetic farming– soil depletion and deterioration of earth nutrients, lack of nourishment in food, and mortal conditions emanating from the chemicals that inescapably leak into the water board, everything the grounds for the primary requirement for organic foods and agriculture.
This demographic inconsistency shows that the vulnerable section in the organic/commercial series is certification. Following contemporary government policy, it catches four years to a field to be approved as organic. The price of making the statement is a collapsed fee of Rs. 5000, and the document itself take extra Rs. 5000. While certain charges are admissible for the modern industrial organic conservatories, they are equivalent to or larger than a complete year’s salary for the common modest farmer, if the expenses of journey and maneuvers are involved.
India need discover a system to fulfill the stringent worldwide organic measures uninjured if it needs to compete in the global market for organic foods but is there a method to do it outwardly transmitting modest farmers absent in the cold? One inexperienced explication is for the government so anxious to secure India organic to promote these certification expenses rather address it a viable choice for conventional farmers, not simply for neo-organic cooperative fields and conservatories. Banks likewise could implement a further level playing area for inadequate farmers– currently, nearly all bank investments are for pure crop farmers, that is, monoculturalism. While many of these big-business producers utilize dangerous substances and methods, small farmers treating their soil with recycled cellular exhaustion are normally unavailable for support, considerable fewer case rewards.
In the Hindu newspaper’s yearly environmental statement, P.V. Satheesh, Director of the Deccan Development Society, records, “It’s a sobering thought that the farmers producing the best and cleanest food must pay extra to certify, instead of inorganic foods being certified as potentially bad for our health.”