"Bangalore,KARNATAKA President of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha Basavaraj Tambaki on Tuesday demanded that the United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre to table the report of the M.S. Swaminathan Committee on Farmers Problems and Solutions in Parliament, so that it could take up remedial measures to prevent suicides in the farm sector..." (The Hindu, November 2, 2011)

JAMMU, Nov. 3 -- Consortium of Indian Farmers Association (CIFA) has demanded immediate implementation of Dr M S Swaminathan committee report on Agriculture to provide remunerative prices to the farmers for" agriculture produce, separate budget Oil agriculture on the pattern of railway budget and providing seeds, fertilizers and other agriculture inputs to the farming community on subsidized rates for the overall socio economic development of the farmers... (Early Times, November 4, 2011)

‘exploitative
agriculture offers great dangers if carried out with
only an immediate profit or production motive. The
emerging exploitative farming community in India should
become aware of this. Intensive cultivation of land without
conservation of soil fertility and soil structure would
lead, ultimately, to the springing up of deserts. Irrigation
without arrangements for drainage would result in soils
getting alkaline or saline. Indiscriminate use of pesticides,
fungicides and herbicides could cause adverse
changes in biological balance and lead to an increase in
the incidence of cancer and other diseases, through the
toxic residues present in the grains or other edible parts.
Unscientific tapping of undergroundwater will lead to the
rapid exhaustion of this wonderful capital resource left to
us through ages of natural farming. The rapid replacement
of numerous locally adapted varieties with one or
two high-yielding strains in large contiguous areas would
result in the spread of serious diseases capable of wiping
out entire crops, as happened prior to the Irish potato
famine of 1854 and the Bengal rice famine in 1942.
Therefore the initiation of exploitative agriculture without
a proper understanding of the various consequences
of every one of the changes introduced into traditional
agriculture, and without first building up a proper scientific
and training base to sustain it, may only lead us, in
the long run, into an era of agricultural disaster rather
than one of agricultural prosperity.’ (Svaminathan, 1968, proponent indické zelené revoluce, in Kesavan et al 2010:908)