Reading the excellent and insightful review by Dr Ardeshir B. Damania of Feroze Varun Gandhi’s (pictured) book A Rural Manifesto: Realizing India’s Future Through Her Villages ("Future of farming,” Books, Parsiana, November 7-20, 2019) has prompted me to order the book. I was especially interested in his references to Israel’s water management and the soil salinity in Iran which is affecting cultivation.
I have also copied this mail to Dr Rca Godbole, a molecular biologist who studied at Freiburg, Germany. She is a major shareholder in and scientific adviser to SaliCrop in Tel Aviv, an Israeli start-up which has developed seed......