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etc. It was found that forest seeds are more nutritious than cereals from agriculture. Forest once created and established are eternal if managed scientifically. There is no need for ploughing, seeding, watering, manuring etc. crop after crop. Forest conserve moisture and do not need watering and are self manured. There is no need for pesticides because it is polyculture and not monoculture and mixed species of trees should be planted. The burrowers like rats which are harmful in agriculture are useful and do the work of ploughing in forests. Birds, insects, animals do the work of pollination and dispersal of seed naturally. Average agriculture production is 1.25 tonnes per hectare per year whereas production of edible seeds only (edible flowers, fruits, beans, leaves, tubers etc. will be in addition) will be about 2 tonnes per hectare per year and that too without any recurring cost as in agriculture every crop. The input costs in agriculture are so high that it is not at all profitable without huge government subsidies all over the world. The Government of India waved agricultural loans of the formers to the tune of 72000 crores at one stroke this year, as a populist policy decision and a vote bank gimmick in the election year. This will further accentuate the inefficiency in agriculture. It will also seriously damage the economic stability by destroying the established norms of loan and its repayment. It is important to note that loans taken for agricultures are often misused in prevailing evils of dowry and ostentatious feasts on deaths. Such unconditional waiving of the loans to such an extent for political gains is a pernicious practice and is misuse of tax payer's money. The forest crops will not be affected by vagaries of nature such as erratic rains in excess or drought. Agriculture crops can be raised only on one tenth of earth surface whereas forests can be grown over 90% of area of on hill slopes, deserts, water logged areas as there are tree-species for all types of edapho-climatic conditions. Population will also be automatically controlled. The greatest benefit from forests well be freedom from droughts and floods and water shortage. It has experimentally been proved that in well forested area more than 90% of rain water is retained through infilteration and less than 10% goes as run off thus checking menace of floods and retaining water underground for all the year round. Such a forest eco-system is by and large symbiotic where all constituents interact for mutual benefit.
By adopting symbiotic forest based life style the retrogratory degradation from good to bad to worse can not only be checked but reversed from bad to good (happy) and to happiest era and stabilised permanently at desired even in areas described as karmabhumis by Yati Vrishabhacharya to be prone to progressive and regressive changes. He has simultaneously mentioned that there are areas, may be some planets such as Harivarsha, Hemvata Uttarkuru Mahavideha etc. where there are no cyclic changes and conditions are stabilized :
"अवसेसवण्णणाओ सुसमस्स व होति तस्म खेतस्स । utaf I ignoraui affi 17441"
