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Jujhda Punjab member Dr. Devinder Sharma talking about sustainable farming practices. Delivering the Inaugural address today at a National Workshop at the Panjab University, Chandigarh, I urged the participants to understand how agriculture has been gradually drawn into an industrial web. We have discarded the sustainable farming practices over the years, and have replaced them with industrial practices. Giving an example, I said the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at Los Banos in the Philippines had sometimes back in a study acknowledged that there is no difference in the productivity of paddy if we the seed is broadcast or if we transplant. If that is true, why were we asked to shift from direct sowing to transplantation? Gave a number of other examples to drive home the point that sustainable farming practices that have been discarded were time tested and in tune with environmental safeguards.