FOOD SECURITY, GREEN REVOLUTION AND CANCER

Abstract

About almost five decades after the Green Revolution that helped India to produce food in sufficient levels but has not led to obtain food security completely. A rise in agricultural production does not necessarily translate into food security until it also secures the health of a person. This exploitative farming in India has been doing intensive cultivation on land without conservation of soil fertility and soil structure that would ultimately lead to the springing of deserts. Irrigation without arrangements for drainage resulted in soils getting alkaline or saline.

 Indiscriminate use of pesticides and herbicides not only caused adverse change in biological balances but also led to an increase in the incidences of cancer and other diseases through the toxic residues present in the grains or other edible parts.

Therefore this exploitive farming without a proper understanding it’s consequences and without building up a proper scientific and training base to sustain it may only lead up in the long run, into an era of agricultural disaster instead of agriculture prosperity and food security.