CBSUA's Organic Agriculture Development Program aims to promote sustainable agricultural practices. The overuse of inorganic fertilizers and chemicals during the Green Revolution led to soil that was no longer responsive and increased health risks for consumers. Farmers were initially successful using these techniques but later realized the damage they had caused to the environment and people's health. The strong chemicals produced by industry to increase yields are lethal to pests but also remain in the environment and food system in a non-biodegradable way, further degrading the environment.

1. CBSUA’s Organic Agriculture Development Program
Ensuring sustainable development is a challenge especially in the agriculture sector since the
demand for high production output to meet the growing demands of ever increasing population have
created among farmers the culture of production oriented practices. These practices were even more
encouraged by the Green Revolution era which brings forth the creation of HYV’s and other high N-
requiring varieties. The desire to produce more leads to the idea that the use of inorganic fertilizers
and reliance to chemicals, in controlling pest and diseases, were the right formula to high yield. Farmers
who adhere to this were not frustrated at first. The combination of HYV’s and high fertilizer inputs really
gave high profit. However, bountiful harvest faltered all along no matter neither how good varieties
were used nor how much inorganic fertilizers are being applied. The soil tends to stop responding and
health risk among food consumers increased to some extent. The blame was on the food they eat and
the farmer’s practices that produce it. They were late to realize that their farm practices they used
have done some irreparable damage to the environment and contributed to health risks among
consumers.
Consumerism and profiteering were successful in promoting reliance to synthetic and industry-
based fertilizers by farmers. Competitions among chemical industries lead to the production of more
effective insecticides and other chemical products needed by the farmers. These chemical products are
very strong with active ingredients more lethal to the enemy of the farmers, pest, but with the capacity
to embed plant tissues and remain non-biodegradable. in the atmosphere contributing much to our
environment’s poor state.