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prices, weather and soil conditions for and controlled. Welfare programmesfor the fishing community have to be growing different crops etc. Though reorientedinamannerwhichcanprovide IT is, by itself, no catalyst of change long-term gains and sustenance of but it can act as a tool for releasing livelihoods.Horticulturehasemergedas the creative potential and knowledge a successful sustainable livelihood embedded in the society. It also has option and needs to be encouraged potential of employment generation in significantly.Enhancingitsrolerequires rural areas. Experiments with IT and investment in infrastructure like electricity, cold storage systems, its application to rural development are carried out in different parts of India. marketing linkages, small-scale processing units and technology 5.6 S USTAINABLE D EVELOPMENT AND improvement and dissemination. O RGANIC F ARMING Other Alternate Livelihood Options: The IT has revolutionised many sectors In recent years, awareness of the harmful effect of chemical-based in the Indian economy. There is broad fertilisers and pesticides on our health consensus that IT can play a critical is on a rise. Conventional agriculture role in achieving sustainable development and food security in the relies heavily on chemical fertilisers twenty-first century. Governments can and toxic pesticides etc., which enter the food supply, penetrate the water predict areas of food insecurity and sources,harmthelivestock,depletethe vulnerability using appropriate information and software tools so that soilanddevastatenaturaleco-systems. action can be taken to prevent or Efforts in evolving technologies which reduce the likelihood of an emergency. are eco-friendly are essential for sustainable development and one It also has a positive impact on the agriculture sector as it can disseminate such technology which is eco-friendly information regarding emerging is organic farming. In short, organic technologies and its applications, agriculture is a whole system of Box 5.3: Adoption of Village by Parliamentarians In October, 2014, The Government of India introduced a new scheme called Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY). Under this scheme, Members of India's Parliament need to identify and develop one village from their constituencies. To begin with, MPs can develop one village as a model village by 2016, and two more by 2019, covering over 2,500 villages in India. According to the scheme, the village can have a population of 3,000-5,000 in the plains and 1,000-3,000 in the hills and should not be MPs' own or their spouse's village. MPs are expected to facilitate a village development plan, motivate villagers to take up activities and built infrastructure in the areas of health, nutrition and education. Source: www.pib.nic.in accessed on 24 October 2014. 86 INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Reprint 2026-27