Bhutan Aims to Be First Country With 100% Organic Agriculture
August 1, 2012, www.care2.com | “NPR reports that the tiny Himalayan nation, Bhutan, sandwiched between India and China and probably best known for promoting Gross National Happiness as a measurement of national progress, is attempting to make the transition to only employing organic agricultural methods.
Good News!!Bhutan Pledges to be First 100% Organic Nation The tiny Himalayan country of Bhutan, home to just 738,000 people, is on track to make one of the biggest pro-organic moves in the world. At the June 2012 Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the kingdom’s prime minister, Jigmi Thinley, announced plans to convert all his nation’s agricultural land to organic farms Bhutan is not alone in the region with its all-organic ambition. Directly across the border, the Indian state of Sikkim is already one-third of the way to being all-organic by 2015; and, at the opposite end of the nation, the state of Kerala began a decade-long transition to all-organic agriculture in 2010.
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