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Organic Food Production In India: Status, Strategy And Scope

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ISBN: E-2023-58
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The indiscriminate use of fertilizers and plant-protection chemicals to increase the yield potential and to save the crops from insect pests and diseases respectively, no doubt, has doubled or trippled or more our total food production, but has also created a number of health hazards and deteriorated the agro-ecosystem badly. This situation has compelled us to switch over organic farming to cultivate valuable crops for healthy and safer foods. Today, the organic food production is drawing attention globally. The demand of organic foods is growing by leaps and bounds especially in the developed countries. In the last decade, organic farming in India has also attracted a number of farmers. Most of the farmers are cultivating organic produce successfully, but still it has to get a momentum. It requires full-fledged support of Government institutions, I CAR research institutes, SAUs, NGOs etc. Then only the movement of organic food production for the people can be made a successful step.

Considering the vast scope and huge export potential of organic foods from India, such types of information on status, strategy and scope in the form of a book was a long-felt need. Since, this is the beginning of popularizing such technologies, the outcome of this book will serve the purpose of the target audience.

Dr. (Prof.) Paritosh Bhattacharyya

Dr Paritosh Bhattacharyya, a soil microbiologist, obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in agriculture with specialisation in soil microbiology from Calcutta University. He has 50 years of experience in various government and private institutions, primarily on biofertilisers, organic farming and related aspects. He worked as the Director of Amity Institute Bio organic Research and Study, Amity University at Noida in UP. Prior to that, Dr Bhattacharyya was Director of the National Centre of Organic Farming, Ghaziabad under the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India from 2004 to 2007 and earlier to that Director of the National Biofertiliser Development centre, also under the Ministry of Agriculture, a project with which he was associated from 1989 onwards. He also worked as Additional Commissioner (INM) under the Ministry of Agriculture during 2005 and 2006. Dr Bhattacharyya also contributed as National Coordinator of FAO project on Organic Farming. He has travelled extensively on professional assignments and has published over 100 technical papers and authored / co-authored 10 books on biofertiliser, organic farming and related subjects. He has initiated 3 patents and worked as the Principal Investigator of various scientific projects of DST, Trifed etc. He was the examiner of PhD theses of many universities, (contact: paritoshb.21@gmail.com). Dr. Bhattacharyya is now engaged as Advisor, SCOPE Organic Informatics, Kolkata.