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Excessive use of synthetic chemicals in conventional agriculture largely degraded the agroecosystems that constitute approximately 40% of the global terrestrial ecosystems. Moreover, changing climate resulted in a substantial loss in agricultural productivity (both in quantity and in quality) mainly due to diverse abiotic and biotic stresses. This draws public awareness about depleting natural resources, viz., soil, land, and water due to unsustainable agricultural practices and equivalently concerns for food-related animal and human health risks. Modern organic agriculture has shown positive impacts in terms of food/biomass production, climate resilience, soil health, biodiversity, nutritional security, and good quality of life; and is of prodigious demand for nutrient-rich organic food products. In the ensuing decade, owing to the principal focus for the quality aspects or health benefits of organic agriculture, this review explores how organic interventions affect the nutritional value and yield quality in a production system; enable plants to adapt to adverse futuristic environmental conditions, and address the global food and nutritional security challenges. The chronological emergence, current global status, public perceptions, and key components of organic agriculture with their attached health benefits are inextricably synthesized herein. Fostering the ethos of organic agriculture under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) is highly imperative for agroecosystem restoration and its sustainable management. Moreover, the multidimensional paybacks of organic agriculture help in attaining important global goals and targets such as the Bonn Challenge and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) by the year 2030. Therefore, invigorating the escalation of organic farming as a concurrent strategy of soil, land, and ecosystem restoration is the need of the hour.

The present research was aimed to study the incidence pattern of plume moth, Exelastis atomosa during Kharif 2015-16 and 2016-17 for long duration on pigeonpea cv. Bahar. The results revealed that the incidence of pod bug started from the 5th standard week during 2015-16 and from 6th standard week during 2016-17 and it remained active up to 15thstandard week of both the years. The E. atomosa population attained its peak level during 11th standard week of both the years i.e., 1.73 larvae/ plant and 1.6 larvae/ plant respectively. Correlation studies indicated that population of E. atomosa exhibited a significant positive correlation with maximum and minimum temperatures and wind velocity whereas a significant negative correlation was established with average relative humidity. Other abiotic factors had no significant effect on this insect pest population. The regression equation revealed that variations of different weather variables caused approximately 85.3 and 75.9 per cent variations in E. atomosa population during both years, respectively.

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