Having been in Agriculture for the last 9 months, insights have been gained into the food we grow and eat in India. As expected a lot of chaos to sort out.

What has hit me most is that of Air, Water and Soil Pollution, we hardly talk about soil, we hardly take soil into consideration while setting up and conducting experiments around the Agricultural System – be it Water Quality, Water Management, Agronomy, Crop Growth Amendments, etc. Today one of the grave concerns is the depletion of Organic Carbon, decline of microbial activity, beneficial bacteria, micro-organisms,  and whatever nature provided, before our fertilizers destroyed them.

It’s interesting that we miss out the very context of agriculture, in fact, of life – it all begins from the soil and ends up as soil.

Why was it so, how come? I thought and thought – We can breathe the Air and Drink the Water to know they are polluted, but we don’t ‘eat’ Soil for us to know that it has gone bad!