Comments by "suraj s" (@surajs5913) on "We lift the layers from RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat's uncharacteristic Vijayadashmi speech" video.

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  2. With folded hands i request Shekharji to not read Bhagwatji's comments regarding agriculture as a call to return to the economics of the 60s. New varieties of crops had driven the green revolution, but the intensive use of chemical fertilisers and agriculture has led to gradually reducing soil fertility and groundwater depletion. The alternatives, which are a mix of scientific and traditional practices include drip irrigation (which would have been impossible to implement a few centuries ago), vertical farming, mechanization, bio fortified crops, new crop varieties (both options being promoted by the centre) and traditional practices like using organic manure, the practice of baranaj (farming 12 crops in the same piece of land to create a balanced plant and soil ecosystem), using bio pesticides and natural predators of pests, etc. Intensive farming using chemicals and excessive groundwater is unsustainable in India without continuous expansion of arable land. Mechanization should be welcomed and the centre has hinted at the same. The green revolution solved the immediate problem but created its own set of problems which can be addressed and solved only through a pragmatic approach aimed at sustainable farming, and a civilisation that has practised agriculture for millenia has something useful to offer. That does not mean that only traditional practices are to be used, rather they must be used when they provide the desired sustainable outcome... also please dont put the blame of famines solely on traditional practises and disregard the contribution of the governance model (nehruvian socialism ) of that time. That is a close minded approach similar to the blaming of India's poor post independence economic growth under nehruvian socialism on the hindu mentality of fatalism and dubbing it the 'hindu rate of growth'...
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