Why this aspect is not talked about in India? India’s economic strength is derived from the people! Why agriculture and rural India neglected? Why they are a low priority? Simple! We in India, are a very British-style influenced bureaucrats-filled Indian steel-frame mentality nation! Thomas Metcalfe, the famous British civil servant has called the Indian villages”…
Category: Agriculture
A vision for agriculture, Indian and global agriculture!
A vision for India’s villages! Hopes for a sustainable world! Hopes for a stable and equitable world! All these revolve around how we see agriculture and the rural lives! All are big themes and big thinking! This calls for some fresh thinking and fresh ideas. Too many people, all experts and visionaries and all with…
Prof. Norman Uphoff of Cornell University says in India in Bihar there is a lesson for future of rice cultivation!
Who makes agri policy in India? Why agri universities are not contributing to agriculture policy making? Yes, a humble farmer from Nalanda is reported to have cultivated an average rice yield of 22.4 tonne per hectare and that had driven the entire agri science community into a tizzy! There is the comparative rice yield map…
“Russian agriculture is the opportunity of the century!”
How agriculture and food could become new diplomatic tools in the modern world! Droughts, rising food prices make economies, big and small vulnerable to new challenges! US economy is still in the slowdown mode only! Obama faces an uphill task in facing the Republican challenge! Russian agriculture is the opportunity of the century? To overcome…
“Small is Beautiful” Business models for agribusiness development!
The big disconnect! Agriculture and the private investments. ICAR is another world, alient world, as far as farmers investing in agribusiness venture. There is one body, called, Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium! What it has done? Precious little, shall we say? So to there are so many ICAR-funded bodies in Hyderabad. Oh, so many to name…
Bankers fail their mandate!
Agri loan targets/priority lending misses the targets! Pranab Mukerjee is likely to raise farm lending target by a 25% rise! Bankers are seen always big boys. In fact, bad big boys. The man on the street sees the big and massive bank buildings as a sign of their bigness. But this is an illusion. Times…
Why entry of big corporates in agri/horti failed?
There is no rational reason why the big corporates like Tatas and Birlas and Mittal failed. Simply because, they had succeeded in other areas like telecom and oil and gas, there is no obvious link with their strategy to enter agriculture. In fact, it is for the simple naive reason that the next big thing…
Corporate farm ventures failing?
Yes, for the right reasons! You can’t become monopolies overnight! Yes, that is what the men-in-hurry type new corporates try to do in an area where much modern day farming is left neglected. Far too long! See what an average farmer psychology is? An average Indian farmer today is a cellar debtor! He is exploited…