Organic food

 The organic  food? You may ask if that is the  latest fad! You may as well think so as it is quite cool these days to eternally talk of food, as if we have just come out of a famine, not an epidemic! Remember the very many khau gallies, overflowing with the never ending queues of foodies.

Actually, organic food is healthy, grown as it is a in a naturally maintained fallow land, and with natural manures. No chemicals, no pesticides are used. It can thus (p)reserve two important resources for the future, healthy land and healthy people. It can also cut down the carbon emission in a way. So its green (carbon-cobtrolling) footprint is better. It can be grown hypogenically, too.

The problem is double. For the farmer, it is a quite expensive form of farming , given the splintered land holdings, to begin with. The farmer has to mostly depend on "fresh from farm" distribution system, moreover. Why, you may ask? Given the current  cost of production the organic way, it is expensive.  The typical distribution chain as well as  the common, middle class citizen would not touch it with a farming hoe!

Organic food is quite expensive.  In the price of a kilo of organic food, say, for example, the grains, one can comfortably get almost the double of the typical fertilizer food! It IS difficult to shell out that much money! Let me give you an example, the Desi cow ka milk costs almost double the AMUL/CHITALE variety  per litre! Look, similarly, at the prices of cooking oil distilled the "lakdi ghana"/ wood press.

There are, moreover, very many other pollutions. So even if we eat naturally grown food  (managed by  a poor farmer who somehow sowed  half the land, somehow without maintaining  the family heirloom gold!), we would anyways suffer! So who would splurge on buying organic food?

Collective farming, sprinkler kind of watering may bring down the prices soon, let us hope to grow and sell farm fresh organic food. This would save the poor farmer to  get out of the tight control by the private landlords, too. Then most all only buy organic food at a comfortable cost. Life would then truly be organised organically!

Pratima@Dreams are great! They help us suffer harsh realities!! Systemic alternatives are always adrenaline assisting!!!