“Do you want India to go naked?”

This was the comment of the Director of a Central Research Institute when when Kisan Mehta of Prakruti (an NGO) first suggested that ____________, the biggest user of chemical pesticides, could be grown organically.

cotton

The correct answer is Option 1: cotton

In 1995, when Kisan Mehta of Prakruti (an NGO) first suggested that cotton, the biggest user of chemical pesticides, could be grown organically, the then Director of the Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, famously remarked, “Do you want India to go naked?”

At present, as many as 130 farmers have committed 1,200 hectares of land to grow cotton organically on the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement’s standards.