8th Shodh Yatra
From Bhikampura to Nilkanth (GADH), Alwar,
Date - Dec 24,2001 to Jan 01,2002
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Popular science movement in India and elsewhere in the world have often tried to take science to the people assuming that science is something outside our day to day life experience. The Honey Bee network of SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) disagrees with this perspective. Otherwise farmers would have sow any crop at any time. It is possible that they did not know the scientific theories underlying many of the farming operations but they know the relationship between temperature, moisture, humidity and seed germination. The influence of modern chemical intensive agriculture may have stopped majority of them from experimenting but some farmers, however did not give up their exploratory spirit and creative urge to develop local solutions unaided by markets, NGOs or state. read more...
