Munnar (Kerala), Oct. 1 -- Agriculture can survive only if soil, water and nature are protected, Idukki District Collector Dr Dineshan Cheruvath said here on Thursday.
He was delivering the G Raj Kumar Memorial Lecture online at the concluding ceremony of the Kurinji Walkathon jointly organised by the Save Kurinji Council and Munnar Environment and Wildlife Society.
Dr Cheruvath said those raising their voice for nature conservation were being opposed by reactionary forces. He alleged that the interests of such forces were not aligned with the protection of farmers and that a tourism lobby was operating in the name of farmers.
"Those who have insulted people by referring to them as hill farmers do not want agriculture to survive. They wa...