


We need to make it aspirational for farmers to achieve the minimum threshold of 3-6 percent organic content by providing attractive incentives for getting to this threshold.This overarching objective of ensuring a minimum of 3-6 percent of organic content for agricultural soil can, in turn, be achieved with a pragmatic three-pronged strategy: This would make our soil vibrantly living and sustainably thriving across all agricultural lands. It is nevertheless possible to distill out one overarching objective – which is to ensure that there is a minimum of 3-6 percent organic content in agricultural soil.
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In much the same way, there are many scientific nuances on how to handle the problem of land degradation in different types of soil conditions, in various agro-climatic zones, and the differing contexts of cultural and economic traditions. The Montreal protocol of 1987 is often hailed as the single most successful international agreement to date – and that happened because there was a singular focus on doing just one thing – halting the depletion of the ozone layer. Our history of ecological effort shows very few unequivocal successes – largely because we failed to convert complex scientific arguments into easy-to-understand simple actions. Notwithstanding the complex nature of the ecological problem facing us, a successful People’s movement can be created only if we can distill the remedial action into just one single-minded focus that is articulated in a succinct and simple way. To Save Soil on a large scale, we need to shape a deep-rooted People’s movement.
