Imagine where we'd be...

Heard this interesting article on NPR this morning on my way to work. It's about the rise of organic farming in India, where 30 times more farmers use organic methods than in the United States. Unfortunately, there is little choice involved—now the soil there is so leeched of necessary minerals and nutrients that the amount of fertilizer required to grow any crops at all has grown exponentially. " 'Imagine how much organic farmers might be able to produce,' Sharma says, 'if India's government spent even a fraction of the billions of dollars it has spent promoting chemical farming.' "