Exhaustive use of chemicals lead to environmental and soil degradation and more chemical residues in food items. Use of Bio-pesticides and bio-fertilizers will lead to less chemical agriculture for safer environment and healthy foods.
Bio-fertilizers will be useful in organic production, reducing the cost of input, healthy chemical free food and maintaining the soil health. Likewise, the bio-pesticides will reduce the use of chemical pesticides, again reduction in input cost and; healthy food and safe environment.
Organic farming can be most potential target.
expenditure, chemical less food and healthy soils.
Reducing the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers is the need of the hour as these are posing a threat to health of living beings, polluting the environment and deteriorating the soil health.
Deputy Director General (Crop Science), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi
Email: ddgcs.icar@nic.in
Phone: 91-11-23382545, 23046560
