Incentivise eco-friendly fertilisers

Consumer demand for the products grown without the use of toxic chemicals is steadily climbing

The growing awareness of the need to reduce the application of chemicals in agriculture is spurring the use of their safer eco-friendly alternatives like biofertilisers and biopesticides. Most of these are equally or, in some cases, more effective in promoting plant growth and protecting crops from pests, diseases, and other adverse factors. More importantly, they do not damage basic resources like soil and water. The indiscriminate use of pesticides, chemical fertilisers, and other synthetic yield-boosters has done considerable damage to soils, and has polluted water resources, in most areas where modern input-based intensive agriculture is in vogue. What is worse,