telepathy, E.S.P, reiki, healing, magnetic treatment, cow urine
treatment, witchcraft, dousing, and can see the testimonies of
effectiveness. Whether these can considered as scientific by these
testimonies? Can they claim as science? The act of the agriculture
experts and researchers being the admires and propagandas of these
alternatives without any proof is really contemptible. In India there are
people to follow the bio dynamics agriculture which is originated in
1924 and rejected by the world as unscientific. Till recently the admirers
and promoters of alternative farming consisted of officials, pensioners,
film actors, landlords, industrialists etc. But currently it is popularized
even among the common farmers due to the massive widespread
campaign of the environmental activists, organic pesticides,
manufacturers, dealers, organic certification agencies, and media. Some
campaigns go to extend to introduce the organic farming as a solution to
the evil of farmer’s suicides.
The traditional farming practiced before the 19 th century was natural
one. But the recently spread organic farming methods are artificial and
developed with postmodernism and are denying the science and
scientific methods. Postmodern theories and thoughts such as deep
ecology, eco feminism, life boat ethics, bio regionalism has influenced
the agriculture and the new farming methods are evolved with these
postmodern thoughts. The proponents alternative farming are against
the reductionism of science and claim the alternative farming methods
as holistic. In relation to the alternative farming methods and these
postmodern thoughts lot of fallacies are existing in our society.
Friends of Scientifica,
October
2016