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Why is it important to promote biodiversity-intensive farming? How did the author achieve it? |
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Answer» Bio-diversity promotes democratic pluralism where every species gets opportunities to sustain itself in co-operation with others and no species in a forest appropriates the share of another species. Since failure to understand biodiversity and its many functions leads to an impoverishment of nature and culture, it becomes imperative to practise bio-diversity-intensive farming. The author started Navdanya Farm in 1994 in the Doon Valley where she practised bio¬diversity-intensive farming. Initially, she started saving seeds from farmers’ fields and today they are able to conserve and grow 630 varieties of rice, 150 varieties of wheat and hundreds of other species. She opines that bio-diversityintensive farming produces more food and nutrition per acre and hence bio-diversity is the answer to food and nutrition crisis. |
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