Is India still a deficit food economy?And Russia and other big economies are using their agriculture power as a political and diplomatic tool? Yes, we read every day about our agriculture development news. As bit players filling up our newspaper columns as a box news item, saying how the Kharif sowing, for instance, as normal…
How does agriculture matter to all sections of society?
Yet how agri issues are relegated to lower priority! Yes, agriculture doesn’t rank high in any of our day-to-day concerns except in our meals times! Yes, agriculture has evolved over time in such a way that when we think of agriculture, we think of villagers and rural India and rural India is what it is…
Writing School and college textbooks!
Issues in changing socio-political times! There are controversies in writing new textbooks first, in the BJP-ruled times and now in Tamil Nadu with a new government in power! The newly elected Government in Tamil Nadu has appointed a new chairman of the School textbook Committee and whose name has evoked controversies? The new chairman is…
Education for Democracy?
Or, for what else?Yes, it is an obvious question but no one asks! You all must be knowing that the New Education Policy (NEP) has been on the table, so to say, for quite some time. But there is no takeoff, again, to ask an obvious question! First, there was a long gestation period after…
Not forget Agriculture issues!
Towards sustainable agriculture!Not pursuing an unsustainable rural development strategy! Our conception of agriculture and rural development as things stand is so out of date and not in accordance with how the Indian rural realities are shaping up with rapid urbanization and employment opportunities are opening up with education spreading on a vast scale. Agriculture is…
ARE WE STILL FOLLOWING A COLONIAL CURRICULUM IN INDIAN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES?
There is in England today a debate on what they call a cultural war in teaching British history. British slave ownership, 800,000 Africans who were legally owned, were freed by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. This history has raised a new debate new culture war in Britain today. Two years ago there was this…
Netherlands Agriculture
A Tiny country feeds the world ! It is time we in India, more so from Indian agriculture universities and other agri teaching institutes, should become updated with what is happening in other parts of the world. New agriculture research and new agri innovations. We started from here and next few months we read more…
Why Agriculture Matters?
Agriculture in a time of climate change, erratic rains, natural disasters etc!For every one, individuals and people alike?Yes, such questions are not asked everyday and everyone at that! For the simple reason we live at a time when the rest of the world is preoccupied with more self-related questions. Money earning, job securing and running…