Staff Correspondent
Subhash Palekar receives ‘Karunasagar’ award
Thirty-nine per cent of population is suffering from malnutrition: Palekar
‘Setting up of SEZs is another challenge before the farmers’
HUBLI: “Natural Farming is the only solution to increase the agricultural produce,” according to agricultural expert Subhash Palekar.
Addressing farmers from districts of Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, Uttar Kannada and Belgaum at the workshop on “Natural farming with zero capital” here on Friday, he said agriculture based on chemical fertilisers and organic fertilisers were nothing but two sides of the same coin.
“Both the systems increase the cultivation cost and thereby affect the self-reliance of the farmer. They are not solutions to the problems of the farmers,” he said.
Although governments accept natural farming, they don’t come forward to implement it.
Under the present circumstances, the farmers themselves should take the initiative for bringing about revolution in agriculture through natural farming, he observed.
Objective
Mr. Palekar said the objective of natural farming was to create clean environment with pure air and food.
The population of the country was likely to double to 200 crore by the year 2050 and the demand for foodgrains would also double.
Already 39 per cent of the population of the country was suffering from malnutrition, and the only solution was natural farming, he said.
He termed the setting up of SEZs as another challenge before the farmers.
On Saturday, Hubli Pinjarapol Samstha conferred the “Karunasagar” award on Subhash Palekar in recognition of his service to the farming community.
NWKRTC chairman Ashok Katwe conferred the award on Mr. Palekar.
President of the Samstha Megharaj Kawad and president of Rashtriya Hindu Sena Pramod Mutalik were present.
