Organic Farming and Sustainable Development

Abstract

With the increasing pressure of population on the resources has increased the demand of grains to fulfil the food requirement. Production of food grains in agriculture was very less in the first half of the 20th century. After Independence first five year plan was dedicated to agriculture. Green revolution also introduce in the country to reduce the scarcity of grains. Consequently India became self-depend on the production of grains and fulfil the demand of its huge population but with introduction of chemicals fertilizers, pesticides and weedicides it’s also increases the problem of soil pollution, reducing the soil fertility and have bad impact on the health of human as well as on the animals. Today India is practicing organic farming for sustainable development in the field of agriculture. This paper is an attempt to study the benefits of organic farming and its issues and challenges in India. Organic farming which is a holistic production management system that promotes and enhances agro-ecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity is hence important. Many studies have shown that organic farming methods can produce even higher yields than conventional methods. Here in this paper we tried to focus the organic farming it issues and challenges moving towards sustainable development with it.