Today the country has two "organic" states - Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, but there may be more of them.
The Indian government is interested in reducing the use of chemical fertilizers by at least 10 percent to promote organic fertilizers, said Indian Minister of Chemistry and Fertilizers D.V. Sadananda Govda edition of Lok Sabha.
“The government intends to reduce by at least 10 percent the amount of chemical fertilizers used by farmers and provide subsidies to those who use compost, thereby encouraging organic farming. Two states in the northeast of our country are already completely "organic," he said.
At the same time, the general use of synthetic fertilizers, especially urea, should be minimized.
“The Prime Minister wants to see that by the end of 2021, imports of chemical fertilizers become minimal. We currently import about 65 lakh metric tons. We want to stop this. For this, several initiatives have been taken and five fertilizer plants that were closed during 2002 are being restored, ”the official said. (Note. Lakh is a number widely used in the Indian system of numbering. It is equal to one hundred thousand).
Legislator in the Government of India from the BJP (one of the two leading nationwide parties in India) Maneka Gandhi recently raised the issue of neonicotinoid pesticides, saying that they are very dangerous and are “pure poison”.
Maneka Gandhi noted that neonicotinoid pesticides were brought to India ten years ago, and now almost every country has banned them, while in India neonics are still used very often. As a result, the bee population has decreased by half since neonicotinoid treatments began to be used.
(Source: news.agropages.com).
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