An Overview of Organic Agriculture: The Indian Scenario

India witnessed self-sufficiency in food production due to the grand success of Green revolution
introduced in 1960’s by the advent of the 20th century, the soil health was completely lost due to the
rampant use of the agrochemicals. Instead of undertaking a new anthropogenic venture to deal with
the problem, it was suggested that the farmers should go back to the arms of the nature and take up
organic farming to restore the loss. While few farmers readily took up this suggestion, some of them
showed a great deal of reluctance as the problems of productivity, costs and profits overshadowed
their decisions. Recent statistics point India to be amongst the top 10 countries, having maximum land
under organic cultivation. The organic market in India looks quite promising but it needs an additional
backup from the Indian government to combat the reluctance of Indian farmers towards organic
farming.