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World Soil Day 2024: The global Save Soil movement by Sadhguru is aimed at addressing the soil crisis by supporting leaders of all nations around the world in actioning policies toward increasing organic matter in agricultural soil.
To raise global awareness, Sadhguru had in 2022 embarked on a motorbike journey and covered a total of 27 countries and a distance of 30,000 kms. (Image: Shutterstock)
World Soil Day, observed on December 5, provides a platform to pay attention towards the importance of healthy soil and advocate for the sustainable management of soil resources. Spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, who has been rallying for the cause of saving soil for the past few decades, has initiated the Save Soil movement with the aim to bring people worldwide together to stand up for soil health.
Save Soil Movement
This global movement by Sadhguru is aimed at addressing the soil crisis by supporting leaders of all nations around the world in actioning policies toward increasing organic matter in agricultural soil.
To raise global awareness, Sadhguru had in 2022 embarked on a motorbike journey and covered a total of 27 countries and a distance of 30,000 kms. He began his journey from London and culminated in Coimbatore in June.
As part of this journey, individuals were called upon to sign up to be the “Earth Buddy,” which motivated them to spend 10 minutes every day to the soil.
Besides raising awareness among the masses, the movement looks forward to inspiring around four billion people to support policy re-directions to safeguard and nurture soils.
The idea behind this campaign is that when people will participate in significant numbers, then this ecological issue would transform into an electoral issue, incentivising political action.
The Save Soil movement looks forward to policy direction in order to raise and maintain the organic content of soil to a minimum of 3% to 6%.
Recently, on Sadhguru’s birthday, farmers of Gujarat’s Banaskantha district came together to establish the Banas Save Soil Farmer Producer Company (BSSFPC), touted to be the country’s maiden soil-focused Farmer Producer Companies (FPC).
World Soil Day 2024: 10 Famous Quotes By Sadhguru
1. Save Soil movement is a ‘love affair’ with the land and life around us. It’s not a fight with anyone.
2. You can’t address climate change and sustainability without addressing soil, which is core of all that is manifest.
3. To reverse threat of soil extinction, we must come together as one force. In richness of soil is the vitality of our life.
4. Earth and soil are living entities. It’s my wish that we act as one humanity to turn the situation around from the brink of disaster. Save soil, let’s make it happen.
5. Agriculture can only thrive on rich soil, there’s simply no other way. Regeneration of soil is ‘invigoration of life’.
6. We’re behaving as if we are the last generation on this planet. If we value life and lives of future generations, we’ve to take care of soil and water.
7. Saving soil no different from loving life around you.
8. Soil is mother of all mothers, keeping it alive and passing it on that way to future generations is the way to know the power of motherhood.
9. Rivers and soil are being depleted at dramatic pace… The simplest and most effective solution is to increase the tree cover, and in turn, enrich the soil and replenish water bodies.
10. We must impart to every human being that soil, water, and air are not resources to be used and thrown away as these are life-making ingredients.
