To ensure food security and to make farming viable following measures to be taken immediatly- 1. Crop managment - The farmers should be trained/informed to grow the required grain/ farm product as per demand , It happens most of the time that farmers suffers loss due to excess production of the crop like in past year suger can production has been surpassed the demand hence farmers are making huge loss. It is because they are not given accurate data and status of production. 2. avialability of Electricity/ water - This should be ensured by equal distribution of the electricity in industires, towns and vililage ( for irrigation ) because food is more important.The irrigation facility should be improve without political hardel and expert should be involved in this process. 3. fertiliser policy- The avialabilty of fertiliser shall be made through out the country without any political preoccupation like which party goverment in state. The quality of the potash based fertiliser shall be strictly checked at distributer lavel . The use of the fertiliser shall be based on soil composition after testing.
I think the people od India are being taken for a ride. Not too long ago i read articles mentioning about farmers dumping their produce on the road for failing to get good prices, FCI godowns overflowing with food grains, etc etc. Now suddenly everyone talks about increasing food production.
I think Cong is collecting money for election. This may be the real story.
It's good to see all the classroom economists are now waking up though with blinkers on. However the solutions they are coming up with are still the same crap. Those who are farmers are doing it because the only other option they have is suicide. The same hybrid seed/fertilizer thinking of the last 40 years have pushed them to the brink today. It's surprising to still see the same song is being sung by these jokers. Despite so many people being dependent on agriculture, it is being thought of as just a feeder to the industrial economy. The entire economy is structured to benefit only industry and since you need food to survive you have agriculture, till we figure out how to eat money and metal. Maybe too late then.
RE:Classroom economists waking up
by sriram kaushik on Apr 02, 2008 09:26 AM Permalink
THAT WAS AN OUTSTANDING OBSERVATION . AT LEAST THERES SOME SANE AND HUMANE PEOPLE AROUND CHEERS
Due to unprecedented growth in population during the last 50 years and lack of employment opportunities in non-farm sectors to accommodate the growing population, a phenomenally large population continues to be dependent on agriculture, leading to fragmentation of land and substantially lower incomes.India's population is 1.1 billion people. By 2020, that could rise to 1.45 billion and by 2050 to 2 billion.Wastelands statistics indicate that about 63.85 million hectares, which account for 20.17% of the total geographical area (328.72 million hectares) exist as wastelands in India.
Any strategy for comprehensive development of agriculture needs innovative rethinking. We should set up private enterprise communes on the lines of the Israeli Kibbutz system. Communes comprise cluster of villages having access to urban/ mandi locations in the South, East, West, and Central India, which suffer most from the Warren Hastings%u2019 settlement system. The concept of free enterprise commune can also be emulated The farmers%u2019 income can be enhanced by maximising the produce and checking waste. Every piece of land must produce a return. If implemented, this plan could bring about the much-needed socio-economic transformation initiated by Mahatma Gandhi. If China could achieve a 20-fold increase in its agricultural output in the past two decades, why should India lag behind?
RE:Whither Farm Sector?
by VENKATARAMAN RAMACHANDRAN on Apr 02, 2008 04:51 PM Permalink
Excellent; can you take some initiative in the interest of the Country and do something for the Society.
It is Indian way of functioning - all those Babus sitting in ministries and commissions - first kill and then revive. These babus may not diffentiate between a wheat and sugarcane plant but will prescribe policies which will make Indian farmer poorer and poorer and finally drive him to either to cities or suicide. Only a Nero would allow a vocation which supports 70 per cent of the country's population to flouder.
I am not doing plain talking alone. Here are some suggestions to revive Indian agriculture:-
#Abolish land ceiling. It is not viable to farm on a plot which less than twenty-five acres. We have maximum less than an acre land holdings.#Promote co-operatives for all marginal farmers. Banks to give loans to farmer co-operatives only. This will generate employment and free surplus manpower to work elsewhere.#Mix agriculture, horticulture, dairy, poultry, apiculture, and all such vocations. Agriculture alone cannot stand to market forces. There is a huge potential for other vocations too. Realise that.#For heaven's sake let MNCs in. They will bring in liquidity, improved techniques and good seeds. The government can form guidelines if you think they are going to swindle the already-fleeced farmers.#Agriculture sector worldwide is a subsidized affair. No one is doing a favour by giving subsidy to Indian farmer. #Take charge of water. It is not going to last long. The real crisis spurred by water shortage is yet to unfold.
It is very clear that Pawar & his ministry have been caught napping ! Pawar's claim that people from east & south have started consuming more of wheat, as a reason for current inflation, is a very lame excuse. His ministry should have start ed reading the trends and imported the required foodgrains much earlier to avoid this impasse. Why are the foodgrains numbers within India falling ? What has Pawar done, so far, to increase this growth on a YOY basis ? The country is already suffering because of the volatility in imported crude prices and I hope food grains imports will not be subject to the same volatility. Somehow, he has managed to bring in the "glorious uncertainties" of cricket into the food scenario and this does not augur well for India.
RE:Pawar caught napping !
by Chaand KaTukda on Apr 02, 2008 08:43 AM Permalink
Mr Pawar would be more up to date on the real estate situation in the country and how much money BCCI is going to generate for him this year because the next year is elections.
RE:Pawar caught napping !
by jayaprakash ravella on Apr 02, 2008 01:26 PM Permalink
He can count no. of farmer's suicides and no. of crores earned by BCCI side by side then laugh and celebrate horizontal and paired growth in these two data series.
The medicine to cure the disease called Bal-Raj Syndrome may sound too harsh, immoral and not good for the health of the country. But how will the two Thackerays react if some one from North India adopts tit-for-tat policy. If the duo are hell-bent upon throwing out the human resources from outside their own state do they realize what will happen to Maharashtra if some cynic of Bihar or UP one day launches an agitation calling for the blockade of minerals and foodgrains on way to this western state. After all it has to rely heavily on other states both for minerals and foodgrains.
Thackerays, and some of his apologists in the media, film-world and politics, need to be told loud and clear that their state, Maharashtra is a leading industrial power today largely because of the policy enunciated by the politicians of the same North India, against whom they spew venom. They must understand that the freight equalization policy was adopted in 1948 by the Centre to facilitate the equal growth of industry all over the country. At that time we have Jawaharlal Nehru, a man from UP, as the Prime Minister. And then a few years later a Bihari, Rajendra Prasad, became the first President of the country.
The worst sufferer of this policy was undoubtedly the undivided Bihar (now Jharkhand hewed out from it) and to some extent Orissa and Madhya Pradesh (now Chhatisgarh carved out from it). Industrialists interested in setting up plants anywhere in the country%u2013%u2013Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delh
RE:Bihar to make a comeback again ....
by on Apr 02, 2008 07:43 AM Permalink
Why blame everything on Nehru...From partition to Tibet. Poor guy did his best possible with sincere intentions. Sure, he could taken a different approach but it has been almost 46 years since he died. What about leasders after him? What about you, me and the people? Are we not equal partners in crime if that is the way you perceive it? Leaders are worth the people they represent. We got what we deserve. Let there be change from within us. This is what Gandhi said. The graet soul even cleaned our toilets and still we blame him. You will never be happy if you engage in blaming govt./leader. How about taking reponsibility starting with paying taxes and following traffic rules? Regards.
RE:Bihar to make a comeback again ....
by sudheer mahajan on Apr 02, 2008 09:29 AM Permalink
he was too busy screwing Lady to know better & in the bargain screwed INDIA ............lady had only Britain's interests at heart whereas nehru let his dick do his thinking
