Sikkim CM Pawan Chamling Seeks Global Effort to Make Agriculture Organic by 2050

Rome: Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling on Monday called for global cooperation to make agriculture totally organic the world over by 2050, citing the achievement of his Himalayan state in northeastern India. Addressing a news conference at the Chamber of Deputies in the Italian Parliament, Chamling said that to heed the warnings of climate scientists about impending dangers, the world must adopt farming without chemical fertilizers and pesticides as that would help reduce carbon emissions by 50 percent. “If we can do it in Sikkim, there is no reason it cannot be done elsewhere,” he said. (IANS)