A Detailed Study of Transfer of Indian Agricultural Knowledge to the West

Abstract

The transfer of Indian knowledge to the west has always been a routine phenomenon. The grim reality is the non-acceptance of the same knowledge by Indians when it is in India and acceptance of it when it is reconceptualised by the westerners and sold to India as their own technology and innovation. Indian knowledge to the west is being appropriated by the westerners, digested by them, then they rename it, call it their own, sometimes they twist it around, re export it to us. We Indians pay for that knowledge to the west and give them honour. This knowledge covers many fields and one such field is agriculture, the knowledge about botany, the knowledge about organic farming practiced in agriculturally rich India during the Vedic times. Vedas says “In this soil lies your future. Take care of it. It will sustain you and provide you with food, clothing, shelter and beauty. Destroy it and it will destroy you”. This wisdom was shared 4000 years ago. The Vedic people knew the importance of manure created by cow dung, dry leaves, and other materials to get good produce.

The primary goal of this study is to study the origin of organic farming in India and how it has revolutionized the modern agricultural system which is against chemical farming and promoting the valuable Indian organic farming agricultural system. It’s high time now to look upon organic farmers as our new physicians as aptly stated by Dr. Vandana Shiva is a well-known Indian academic, environmentalist, proponent of food sovereignty, ecofeminist, and author who opposes globalisation.