India has always been in touch with nature right from its Agricultural areas self and also reflected in its culture. The most popular Hindu beliefs and everything rooted in mythology consider nature as divine, deifying animals, rivers, forests. A belief in the sacredness of nature is inherent in the Indian Way of Life. This has made it easier for India to balance it’s cultures and the geography with the surrounding natural environment.
The ancient text like Vrikshayurveda lays emphasis on identification of the nature and requirement of the soils and plants in order to cultivate crops in an effective manner. Indian farming has adherence to monsoon and is also safe for diversification of species. Throughout centuries and millennia, small families’ farms have been using seasons and climates, being built to conserve water and soil for growing local food. Crop-growing people hold a god called rain in high esteem and refer to the ground as being a mother figure. There is a great and nurturing attitude to nature prevalent throughout Indian agriculture.

Indian culture has been traditionally associated with the land due to the celebrations of traditional festivity based on the agricultural calendar and phenomena of nature. There are songs and dances to welcome the rains and also for the harvest. Favours of nature are appreciated through NATURE POETRY and geometrical designs of MUGHAL GARDENS and RAJASTHAN FORTS. In Indian arts and crafts, flowers and leaves as well as natural dyes serve as the way to pay homage to the divinity of beauty of growth and the food it offers.

Thus it is seen that Indian culture respects the relationship between humanity and nature where nature is considered as divine, alive and necessary for life’s sustenance and to achieve individual fulfilment. It is this cultural attitude that has been adopted in the conduct of farming in such a way as to sustain both the farmers and the soil.