We need a new Green Revolution — one that focuses on the environment | The Indian Express

We need a new Green Revolution — one that focuses on the environment | The Indian Express

Written by Poonam Mahajan |Updated: November 14, 2019 10:00:52 am

The writer is national president, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and an MP

We need a new Green Revolution — one that focuses on the environment

What India needs is a holistic approach to the issue — affordable nutrition and commercially profitable agriculture that are environmentally clean and leave minimum impact on natural resources.

The Collins Dictionary named “Climate Strike” the word of the year in 2019. 

While growing up in a vegetarian family, I saw my mother face the big question for most non-meat eating families: How do we get adequate protein? Pulses, yes, but how do we get more? I know of several mothers who moved their children to meat-based diets only because they believed these were more protein-rich. Back then, there was little awareness on how plants can also be an adequate source of protein.