The Advise. Poem by Gangadharan nair Pulingat..

Once they came and advised us
To change to modern methods
The pest control by pesticides
And desist the local methods
The age old practices to control pests
Science we believed and proved it is useful
It was successful but the consequence!
Somewhere we lost hope in insecticides
And asked to follow the old method
Or change to adopted methods
without chemical application
And follow the nature in cultivation
But the mother earth says
It has became habitual to me
The killing spree of insects
By chemicals, the usual practice
Still slowly she accepts the truth
For her own children's health her concern.