Reviving Farm Biodiversity and Protecting Rights of Farmers | Bharat Dogra

One of the biggest worries relating to the food and farming system at world level has been that in recent decades the diversity of crops being grown on the fields of farmers has declined to an alarming extent. The diversity of crops has decreased and in addition the diversity of varieties of crops has decreased even more and their genetic base has become narrower.

Earlier the crop diversity had evolved over a period of over ten thousand years on farms and for much longer in nature. Apart from nature