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Abstract Sustainable development has become the buzz word all over the globe from past few decades. Sustainable agriculture is necessary to attain the goal of sustainable development. Green revolution has brought spectacular increase in production and productivity in our country. Food production has increased from 69 million tonnes in 1965 to 275 million tonnes in 2016-17. The increased food grains supply during the last five decades in many parts of the country has ensured national food security. But it has shown the undesirable effects on natural resources, such as soil, water, biodiversity and human health. Farmers are using more fertilizers to get the yield as they were getting with lesser fertilizers twenty to thirty years ago. Consumption of chemical fertilizers {NPK) has been increasing in India during the past fifty three years. It was only 5.43 lakh tones in 1963-64 i.e., before green revolution and reached 259.49 lakh tones in 2016-17. Consumption of pesticides increased from 24.32 thousand tonnes in 1970-71 to 52.75 thousand tones in 2016-17. Injudicious use of fertilizers and exorbitant use of pesticides has led to enormous levels of chemicals buildup in our environment. . It is adversely affecting the health of human being, plants and animals. The present system of agriculture is unsustainable and self destructive. In this context the present study focus on the trends in consumption of fertilizer and pesticides in Indian agriculture and the need for organic farming in India.