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Bhutan is taking another interesting step towards creating a more ecological sustainable world. NPR reports that the tiny Himalayan nation, sandwiched between India and China and probably best known for promoting Gross National Happiness as a measurement of national progress, is attempting to make the transition to only employing organic agricultural methods.
The nation has a slight advantage in this goal, as many of its farmers already are organic by default, if not by certification.
NPR:
The Ministry of Agriculture says the organic program, launched in 2007, is not just about protecting the environment. It will also train farmers in new methods that will help them grow more food and move the country closer to self-sufficiency. The ministry is now training extension workers in organic methods and giving farmers who go organic priority for government assistance.Bhutan is not alone in the region with its all-organic ambition.
Directly across the border, the Indian state of Sikkim is already one-third of the way to being all-organic by 2015; and, at the opposite end of the nation, the state of Kerala began a decade-long transition to all-organic agriculture in 2010.
Yessssssss.
This is awesome! If only the USA would adopt policies like this (and the rest of the world) — that would be absolutely incredible.
— Brittany
Mia Farrow, 1968.
Lovely.
(Source: jeanjeanie61)
