Sikh News Punjab Goes Organic For Pest Control (Indian Express Via Yahoo! India News)

[Sikh News Reporter]

In a bid to counter hazardous effects of chemical pesticides, Punjab has taken up an ambitious project to produce and sell neem-based pesticide to farmers. The Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST) has begun the pilot project, in which more than 70 tonnes of neem fruit will be used to produce pesticide over a period of three years. "This is the first mass-scale organic farming ...

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This story proves that anything is possible when a group of people puts mental energy into a problem and exerts collective effort. The neem fruit solution also looks like a secondary source of income for farmers who participating in the goal of supplying the fruit to the pesticide industry.