India Just Hit A Massive Milestone, and the world should take note

September 29, 2016 03:48

Go to a grocery store in the US and you'll likely find a small area of the produce section marked 'organic', where the options are pricey and scant compared to the 'regular' AKA conventionally produced section. Now, go to India, and you'll find an entire state growing only organic produce. That's right: every farm, every field, every vegetable.

Home to more organic farmers than any other country in the world, India now boasts the first state to receive 100 percent organic certification. Small but mighty, all 75,000 hectares of farmland in Sikkim and its 66,000 farmers have sworn off GMOs, pesticides, and chemical fertilisers.

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