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5. Organic vegetables (a type of cucumber), to be sold
in local markets, growing in a certified organic plot in
Kollam District of Kerala. Photo by the author.
corrupt and inefficient, and he insisted that the organic farming policy
would likely lose steam. Meanwhile, efforts to develop relationships with
buyers abroad were gaining momentum.
Kerala's certified organic farmers do not have a united vision of an ideal
organic farm and instead believe that “organic agriculture” simply means
farming without chemicals. The organic farming practices that propo-
nents of certified organic farming for export generally advocate are more
general than those of Dayal and organizations like Thanal: good farm-
ing practices can be compatible with cash crop agriculture for export,
