I hear people saying that in Tamil Nadu farming has been happening for over 12,000 years,

probably the longest anywhere in the world.

We are still ploughing the same land, and for all this millennia it fed us,

but now in two generations we have brought it to a place where all the studies are showing

nearly 25% of the land, agriculture land in India, is on the verge of becoming a desert.

Becoming a desert means this.

For any land to be considered as soil, there must be a minimum of 2% organic content.

In many states, especially like Punjab and Haryana, the organic content has come down to 0.05%.

Not 0.5, 0.05%. This means it's on the verge of becoming a desert.

That means you cannot grow a thing in it, in the next five to ten years it may happen.

Why such a thing happening?

See in one acre of land, let us say to ten tons came out of it.

What you have taken out is not sugar cane, what you have taken out is topsoil.

So on an average, in this country, here on here, 5.3 billion tons of topsoil is taken away in the form of crop.

This is nearly one millimeter.

How much are we putting back? What we are putting back is negligible.

How do we put back organic content? From where does it come?

Either you must have trees which will shed leaves or you must have animal waste, lots of animals and the waste will become organic content.

Trees are already gone. Animals are all traveling out in the form of meat.

When you export meat, you must understand you are not sending meat.

You are giving away India's topsoil.

I want you to do some simple arithmetic and tell me in how many years will we become a total desert?

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