{"id":209122,"date":"2022-10-01T20:52:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=209122"},"modified":"2022-10-01T20:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T15:22:04","slug":"let-the-land-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/let-the-land-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"Let The Land Heal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cLet the Land Heal\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Indian Express <\/strong>on <strong>1st October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Agriculture and Environment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Unsustainable agriculture practices<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The article explains the issues related to excessive use of pesticides. It also suggests measures to reduce their use.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the issue?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>There is indiscriminate use of pesticides by farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of quality farm advisory services is responsible for it.<\/p>\n<p>Pest are developing resistance to existing pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>It is impacting the human body and biodiversity.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Alternate business model<\/strong>&#8211; The business model of the farm chemical input industry must transform to become a service industry.<\/p>\n<p>In India, shopkeepers only sell farm chemical inputs. Individual farmers cannot afford good quality precision spraying equipment. It leads to wastage.<\/p>\n<p>To reduce the wastages, input sale of the sellers could be in the form of services like spray on farms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transparent data collection<\/strong>&#8211; Shopkeepers should report each sale of farm chemicals to the government in real time.<\/p>\n<p>There is a need for a mandatory QR code on each farm chemical package. These measures will allow for better-targeted farm advisory and grievance redressal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Independent regulator<\/strong>&#8211; Same officials and departments who advocate pesticide use also regulate the trade. The regulation of farm chemicals needs to be transferred to the health ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cLet the Land Heal\u201d published in The Indian Express on 1st October 2022. Syllabus: GS3- Agriculture and Environment Relevance&#8211; Unsustainable agriculture practices News&#8211; The article explains the issues related to excessive use of pesticides. It also suggests measures to reduce their use. What is the issue? There&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/let-the-land-heal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let The Land Heal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10500],"class_list":["post-209122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704936961},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}