Deccan Development Society calls upon scientists to study culture of farmers

Hyderabad: Deccan Development Society wants the agricultural scientists and researchers to study and understand the knowledge and culture of the farmers for finding solutions to the agrarian crisis.

Addressing a press conference here, Society director P V Satheesh said the society had taken up a study 'Interfacing Farmers' Science with Formal Science' which concluded that the way out r the food and farming crisis can be found in farmers' knowledge and culture which are a product of their ecological understanding of agriculture and the world around it.

He said the interrelation between farmers' knowledge and culture should be clearly studied and understood by agricultural scientists and researchers.