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Point out the benefits of ‘green chemistry’ for agrarian transformation in India.
- UPSC 2020
- 10 marks
- Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India
Green chemistry, as Paul Anastas and John Warner defined it in Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice (1998), is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate hazardous substances at source instead of treating them afterwards. Their twelve principles — safer feedstocks, catalysis, atom economy, designed degradation — offer Indian agriculture an exit…
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- Benefits for the farm economy
- Ecological and occupational-health benefits
- The sociological gain
- The caution
- Conclusion
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