Inorder to highlight the the huge potential in organic farming in India and to provide inputs for starting an organic venture, CII?s Conference on Organic Farming?Ushering in Organic Revolution presented organic agriculture as a preferred option and priority not only for food safety and biodiversity, but also for improving net income for small and medium-scale farmers.
Speakers reiterated that with the growing environmental concerns about the use of agricultural inputs, organic farming comes out as a big opportunity area and emphasised the need to strategise agriculture to focus on better technologies for organic production, organic processing, linkage to markets, and promising regions and crops for organic farming to help India surge ahead and mark its presence in the organic sector worldwide, which is poised to reach $100 billion by 2012.
VS Chimni, conference chiarman & chief executive officer of Council of Organic farming in Punjab, stated that immense commercialisation of agriculture and reduced nutritional quality of food have led marked increase in ill effects on the health of the consumer. Therefore ?organic farming ?is a trustable alternative.