Enriching India s soil
India's Green Revolution has left us with embarrassing mountains of undistributed agricultural surpluses and hectares of land with seriously depleted soil. Yet it need not be so. This can be solved with a fraction of the staggering sum now being spent to subsidise synthetic fertilisers that destroy India's soil fertility.
India's synthetic fertiliser subsidy bill for the year 1999-2000 comes to a whopping Rs 14,250 crore. Of this amount, Rs 8,750 crore has been spent on urea, Rs 4,500 crore on phosphorus and potassium ( p and k ) fertilisers, and a further Rs 1,000 crore on interest subsidy to big producers. Ironically, the installation of compost plants in cities
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