Agro-ecological approach should a base for sustainable agricultural intensification and building resilience. The efforts towards achieving sustainable agro-ecosystems must be relay on the ecological inclusiveness with location specific interventions enriched with mutual trades which benefits all entities equitably viz., producers, consumers and value chains and ecosystem services while safe guarding the environmental flows. Still there is huge untapped potential for birding these gaps whether it can be yield/production, nutrition, input use efficiency, ecological foot print, etc. We need to find a ways to develop and/or bring-back lost glories of the ecologically sound integrated production system which itself is resilient as well inputs efficient with less travel millage.
Chandrashekhar Biradar