Mumbai, Sept. 12 -- India's food security and climate resilience will continue to pose challenges unless government policies, farm economics, and technology adoption are reworked and aligned with resource poor farmers in remote areas, according to agri-entrepreneurs and farmer association representatives who spoke at Mint's Sustainability Summit held in New Delhi recently.

Ajay Vir Jakhar, chairman of Bharat Krishak Samaj, said existing policies that artificially depress food prices have created a cycle of unsustainable farming.

"It's been the government's policy to artificially drive down prices to benefit the consumer, and that itself makes farming unsustainable. Farmers grow crops in an unsustainable way not because they want to do i...