IRREVERSIBLE EFFECTS OF MODERN AGRICULTURAL PRACTISES !!!!

Rediscovering indigenous fare - The Hindu

The introduction of commercial crops by the British has changed the cropping pattern on the Blue Mountains from a diverse food crop system to a mono culture cash crops scenario. In its wake dependence on chemical fertilizers and pesticides has increased.

The cascading effect is the lack of food security and nutrition especially among the small and marginal communities and reduced water retention capacity of the soil among other things.

COMMERCIAL PLANTATIONS - Limiting the Damage to ‘CULTURE’ - TOO LITTLE –TOO LATE

“The Board had taken a long and hard look at questions of loss of bio-diversity to rubber plantations and might, for the first time, recommend planters to allow the growth of weeds, shrubs and medicinal plants along with rubber trees, Rubber Board sources said.”

The Hindu : Business News : Rubber Board's bio-diversity initiative

COMMERCIAL  PLANTATIONS  SERVED AS THE ENGINE  FOR THE FLOURISHING SLAVE TRADE !!!!!!