
Beyond the Organic Label: Assessing the Performance and Future of Sikkim’s Organic Mission (2010)
An agriculture-driven economy requires technologies and practices suited to its geographical and ecological conditions. This is particularly relevant to the Indian state of Sikkim, where the fragile Himalayan environment and historical farming practices limited the suitability of Green Revolution technologies. Concerns over food security and the ecological costs of chemical-intensive agriculture encouraged the state to pursue traditional and organic farming as a deliberate response to the specific conditions of Himalayan agriculture.






