After good roads, improving law and order, education and health services, Bihar is turning its attention to popularising and promoting organic farming in the state to usher in a new "Green Revolution" in agriculture.

The state government has already decided to promote organic farming in at least one village of the state's 37 districts.
"The Bihar government launched an 'organic farming promotion programme' early this year for the cultivation of organic crops in all the districts. The government has decided to develop organic grams (organic villages), for which a sum of Rs.255 crore has been sanctioned for five years," an official of the agriculture department said. Agriculture is the backbone of Bihar's economy, employing 81 percent of the workforce, and generating nearly 42 percent of the state's domestic product, it says.