TEEBAgriFood Implementation in India: - Consultation between National Project Steering Committee

In UP, options include the following: select villages in central or western UP (with a track record of organic farming) that are among the 25 districts shortlisted under scaling up of organic farming, as part of the National Mission for Clean Ganga; in eastern UP, villages in the Hamirpur district which lie along the Yamuna tributary of Ganga river- the Budndelkhand region in Agroclimatic Zone 7 (. [...] • Stubble burning of crops at sow-in time for the Kharif season crop has intensified the problem of air pollution in the state as the well in the adjoining areas including the national capital region during the months of November each year. [...] • The state accounts for a significant share of the rice and wheat production of the country and also popularly known as the food bowl of the country. [...] 4 a result of the significant importance given to food crop production, fertilizer use in the state is the highest in the country. [...] He asked the officials of the Agriculture Department to make the farmers aware of the organic and zero budget agriculture.