We can’t simply ignore them as a part of most modern trends. This false
propaganda influencing lot of farmers, agriculture students, officials and
even Agriculture scientists. The sector of people denying the modern
agricultural methods are promoters of different alternative methods.
These alternative methods have lot of admirers as alternative medicine.
Most of the alternatives are part of pseudo-science. Now the field of
agriculture is over flood by these pseudo scientists. Alternative
agriculture is not developed through the methods of science such as
observations, experiments and conclusions but they are headed by
absolute speculations, testimonies etc.
The common belief in society is that the progressive lobby is great
admirers of Science. But in reality most post modernists are not and
for them science is just a story telling. Famous NGO and
environmentalist Vandana Shiva wrote in her book “Staying alive-
women, Ecology, and Development” about science as “ Science is
similar to all other socially constructed categories” .The people who are
working with NGO can take a position that science is making violence
of reductionism but the main stream scientists have to follow the
methods and path of science. The scientists cannot conduct research
works by completely denying the process of reductionism. Like any
other science in agriculture also science world can accepts the theories
proven by scientific methods. As a Science it cannot support the
methods developed by speculations and testimonies. There are lot of
Pseudo-sciences like Astrology, palmistry,
Friends of Scientifica,
October
2016