Surinder Sud / New Delhi October 07, 2008, 0:12 IST New farming technologies can help not only improve land productivity, but also reverse climate change. Faster agricultural growth in the past was largely the result of promoting higher use of water, fertilisers and other energy-intensive inputs and technologies. But now, the need is to carry the growth forward even while economising on the use of all such inputs to reduce costs and forestall their ill-effects on the health of natural resources and environment. The model of farming that helps to achieve this goal has been termed aptly as