New holistic fertiliser policy in the offing
Updated: Aug 25, 2014 03:33:53pm
New Delhi, Aug 25 (KNN) The Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Ananth Kumar today said that the government proposes to come out with a new holistic fertilizer policy which could provide a national platform for farmers to use bio-fertilisers.
The Minister was speaking at the 4th National Conference on Agrochemicals 2014, here on the theme ‘Agrochemicals for Ensuring Food and Nutritional Security of the Nation,’ according to an official release.
He said that a task force of experts in the field will be constituted to frame such a policy soon.
Pointing out that the Green Revolution of 60s and 70s was not a holistic, but a truncated revolution; the Minister expressed serious concern at irrational usage of fertilizers which he said could have an adverse effect in achieving sustainable food and nutritional security for the nation.
Significantly, the Ministry for Chemicals and Fertilizers is planning to recommend to the Department of Agriculture, the banning of a pesticide which is being harmful to the bees and which was earlier banned in the USA and some other countries.
He said we need to follow global best practices even in such areas to make a paradigm shift for sustainable food and nutrition security by removing disturbing anomalies.
Further, he said that the Government proposes to bring forward the pending Pesticides Management Bill, 2008 in the next Winter Session of the Parliament.
Calling for increased research and development in the field of bio-fertilisers, the Minister said his Ministry is following up with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas for allocating more gas to increase fertilizer production in the country. In addition, they are trying to revive the sick and closed fertilizer units in the public sector.
The Minister called for further development in the pesticides production, which is already the 4th largest in the world, to achieve unrealized potential of the country and to further boost exports in the sector.
In his key-note address the global president DuPont Crop Production Private Limited, Rik L. Miller has said that innovations, investments and critical collaborations for R&D are very important in the sector.
Several experts in the field are participating in the two-day national conference. (KNN/ES)
The Minister was speaking at the 4th National Conference on Agrochemicals 2014, here on the theme ‘Agrochemicals for Ensuring Food and Nutritional Security of the Nation,’ according to an official release.
He said that a task force of experts in the field will be constituted to frame such a policy soon.
Pointing out that the Green Revolution of 60s and 70s was not a holistic, but a truncated revolution; the Minister expressed serious concern at irrational usage of fertilizers which he said could have an adverse effect in achieving sustainable food and nutritional security for the nation.
Significantly, the Ministry for Chemicals and Fertilizers is planning to recommend to the Department of Agriculture, the banning of a pesticide which is being harmful to the bees and which was earlier banned in the USA and some other countries.
He said we need to follow global best practices even in such areas to make a paradigm shift for sustainable food and nutrition security by removing disturbing anomalies.
Further, he said that the Government proposes to bring forward the pending Pesticides Management Bill, 2008 in the next Winter Session of the Parliament.
Calling for increased research and development in the field of bio-fertilisers, the Minister said his Ministry is following up with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas for allocating more gas to increase fertilizer production in the country. In addition, they are trying to revive the sick and closed fertilizer units in the public sector.
The Minister called for further development in the pesticides production, which is already the 4th largest in the world, to achieve unrealized potential of the country and to further boost exports in the sector.
In his key-note address the global president DuPont Crop Production Private Limited, Rik L. Miller has said that innovations, investments and critical collaborations for R&D are very important in the sector.
Several experts in the field are participating in the two-day national conference. (KNN/ES)
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