Home Minister Remarks On "New Green Revolution"

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday urged farmers to create a "new green revolution" in India by adopting natural farming practices, citing the usage of artificial fertilizers as having a negative impact on land, water, and human health. He claims that the overuse of artificial fertilizers is making farmland infertile and that adopting natural farming practices is essential for restoring soil quality, increasing agricultural production, and ensuring farmer prosperity.

After launching the Gujarat government's project for natural farming's logo, mobile application, and e-vans to market the produce grown using natural farming practices through a chain of Farmer Producer Organizations, Shah was electronically addressing farmers (FPOs).

He claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi recognised chemical fertilisers as a big concern and began looking for ways to minimise their use while also attempting to boost agriculture production, cut water consumption, and bring wealth to farmers. Shah added that scientists have validated that adopting natural farming restores the land quality and makes it more fertile, enhances productivity, reduces water use, and makes farmers rich. Moreover, he pointed out that Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat also worked in the field of natural farming.

He claims that over two lakh farmers in Gujarat have adopted natural farming over 2.5 hectares of land in the previous two years. According to him, the Union Cooperation Ministry has tasked Amul (Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd) with establishing laboratories in areas where farmers practise natural farming in order to certify the land and produce, as well as establishing a marketing chain.

The minister expressed confidence that food grains grown naturally will fetch twice the minimum support price in India and on international markets. He was strong in his belief that if we were able to move in the direction of natural farming then soon farmers all over the country would be following the same example. As Shah is a Member Of Parliament hailing from a district in Gujarat, he believes it his duty to ensure that at least fifty percent of the farming activities in his constituency should be towards natural farming.