This book has some unique features. It contains (i) the self-questioning of
scientists who had long been used to the reductionist method of science and had
become the vehicle of propagating chemicalisation of agriculture as "Scientific
Technology", (ii) penetrating observations of some social penetrating
observations effect of activists on the deleterious effect of chemicalised
farming and (iii) the stories of path breaking efforts in alternative
agriculture in pursuit of organism. The very first chapter of the book poses,
perhaps for the first time, question of fundamental importance in social
philosophy and economics which impinge on agrcultural technology and
sustainability of both the production system and society.
The book