"Sod is almost 95percentt Kentucky bluegrass, and to survive here in the summer it has to be irrigated, which means you also have to fertilize it — that's what's driving these really high inputs of nitrogen into the landscape.
While the Green Revolution was based on high inputs and high returns, the S.C.I is based on more returns with less inputs and focuses on sustainability, says Mr. Anil Verma of the non-profit Pradan.
In my own vegetable beds I use no chemical heroics, and yet I had been using some conventionally produced seed that is often coddled and adapted to a life of "high inputs" that it won't get from me or from an increasing number of other chemical-averse home gardeners.
Intensive agriculture, characterized by high inputs, has serious implications on the environment.
High inputs reduced species richness of breeding birds and the density of Alauda arvensis.
More area under groundwater irrigation with high inputs is coming under cash crops like groundnut, cotton, mustard, cumin and chillies.
