{"id":2495,"date":"2018-09-24T02:37:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T02:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/will-organic-revolution-boost-farming-in-india\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T02:37:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T02:37:35","slug":"will-organic-revolution-boost-farming-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/will-organic-revolution-boost-farming-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Will organic revolution boost farming in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>In 2016, Sikkim, a small state in India\u2019s northeast, was declared the country&#8217;s first fully organic state. Since then, Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government has been trying to promote chemical-free farming across the country.  <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly half a century since the &#8220;Green Revolution&#8221; introduced modern farming techniques that included the use of pesticides, to make India a self-sufficient food producer.  <\/p>\n<p>So will Sikkim\u2019s organic revolution be able to reinvent agriculture once again across India? <\/p>\n<p><i>Reporter: Yogita Limaye; Producer: Pooja Aggarwal; Filmed and edited by Vishnu Vardhan<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45605018\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Sikkim, a small state in India\u2019s northeast, was declared the country&#8217;s first fully organic state. Since then, Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government has been trying to promote chemical-free farming across the country. It\u2019s been nearly half a century since the &#8220;Green Revolution&#8221; introduced modern farming techniques that included the use of pesticides, to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}