Organic Farming in Telangana - Scope and Opportunities

The modern Agricultural practices led by green revolution technologies helped the country to achieve self sufficiency in food production, but, left with innumerable no. of problems like decline in factor productivity, environmental pollution and degradation, depletion of natural resources, emergence of micro-nutrient deficiencies and super weeds, increased cost of production, loss of biodiversity, increased emission of green house gases and climate change. Organic farming was found to be an eco-friendly practice to reverse the ill effects of modern Agriculture. The state of Telangana has formulated a favourable organic farming policy. In this article, the problems with modern Agriculture, scope and opportunities for organic farming in the Telangana were discussed.