‘Time to save the country from environmental disasters’

Emphasising upon the need for soil and water conservation technologies to meet the threats of climate change,global warming and melting of glaciers,Dr J P Kaushik,special secretary and director,Agriculture,Haryana,said soil health has deteriorated to such an extent that it has become the most important limiting factor in crop production.

He was addressing a workshop on ‘Resource Conserving Technologies’ for the Shivaliks. He said that farmers continue to make excessive and irrational use of chemicals in the form of fertilisers and pesticides,which results in the exploitation of land. “It is the time to wake up and save the country from environmental disasters,” he said.

Dr S K Dhar,principal chief conservator of Forest,Haryana,said the problem of forest degradation is due to outside interferences caused by unscientific and unsustainable development activities like building,mining activities and other anthropogenic disturbances.