{"id":256,"date":"2011-03-13T06:51:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T06:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/?p=256"},"modified":"2011-03-13T06:54:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T06:54:50","slug":"eco-farming-can-double-food-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Farming Can Double Food Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Devinder Sharma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class='et-dropcap' style=\"font-size: 60px; color: #790707;\">I<\/span>n the mad rush to promote unwanted GM crops, the world had forgotten how China had demonstrated an increase in rice production by 89 per cent (and a reduction a rice blast disease by 94 per cent) when farmers grew a mixture of rice varieties rather than follow the mundane and destructive monoculture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This miracle was reported from Yunan province, and I still remember the report had donned the front page of New York Times. After several years, I am so delighted that Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, has made a mention of this in an important report he submitted today.<br \/>\n<a href='https:\/\/devinder-sharma.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/eco-farming-can-double-food-production.html' class='small-button smallgreen' target=\"_blank\"><span>Read Blog&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devinder Sharma n the mad rush to promote unwanted GM crops, the world had forgotten how China had demonstrated an increase in rice production by 89 per cent (and a reduction a rice blast disease by 94 per cent) when farmers grew a mixture of rice varieties rather than follow the mundane and destructive monoculture. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eco-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endosulfan.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}