Organic Farming the relevance of Desi Cow
It is heartenign to read that our PM had allocated INR500 Crore for protection of Desi Cow. This initiative shall be linked to the process of encouraging Organic Farming in the country. Our agricultural lands have been converted into the dumping grounds for indiscriminate use of inorganic fertilizers, pesticides and other agri-chem products. Today in Hyderabad we can not get a desi green chilli and desi tomato in their original shape and taste. The green chilli when cooked would separate itself from its skin!!
This is the plight of the vegetables, perhaps in other parts of the country too. It is high time that the GoI shall encourage organic cultivation of fruits and vegetables in the country and enable the farmer to get a remunerative price and the customer a value for his money.
Today in the name of Organic Production few private companies are minting money and the farmer remains a silent spectator. We need to integrate the process of production with the process of selling to an individual customer. This arrangement needs huge investments and human resources. This is the most potential area for creating healthy wealth and more jobs. The Ooty carrot can be available in in Visakhapatnam and the honey from Araku Valley shall be available in Ooty - this is possible only when we create AGri-Grid that includes, mobile and immobile cold chain, stalls and their professional management. Today's youth can find many jobs in this Agri-Grid. Sky is the limit.
Coming to the subject, one desi cow can provide the organic manure for a considerable landholding to grow cereals, Fruits and vegetables, pulses, etc. Therefore it is obligatory on the part of each farmer to have two desi cows or such number of desi cows that his landholding needs. This shall be made as a rule for qualifying that farmer to get the GoI aid for organic farming. Mere allocation of money and spending for fodder, health would not give long term results. more
This is the plight of the vegetables, perhaps in other parts of the country too. It is high time that the GoI shall encourage organic cultivation of fruits and vegetables in the country and enable the farmer to get a remunerative price and the customer a value for his money.
Today in the name of Organic Production few private companies are minting money and the farmer remains a silent spectator. We need to integrate the process of production with the process of selling to an individual customer. This arrangement needs huge investments and human resources. This is the most potential area for creating healthy wealth and more jobs. The Ooty carrot can be available in in Visakhapatnam and the honey from Araku Valley shall be available in Ooty - this is possible only when we create AGri-Grid that includes, mobile and immobile cold chain, stalls and their professional management. Today's youth can find many jobs in this Agri-Grid. Sky is the limit.
Coming to the subject, one desi cow can provide the organic manure for a considerable landholding to grow cereals, Fruits and vegetables, pulses, etc. Therefore it is obligatory on the part of each farmer to have two desi cows or such number of desi cows that his landholding needs. This shall be made as a rule for qualifying that farmer to get the GoI aid for organic farming. Mere allocation of money and spending for fodder, health would not give long term results. more
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MOHAN CHITAGUPPI (Retired Sr. Manager from Canara Bank) I worked in the Bank for 40 years and out of it 16 years in rural areas. I have discussed many a time with my colleagues, agricultural extension officers, regarding quality of food grains, fruits, vegetables and milk. All of these have not only lost their original taste, but also the nutritive/medicinal qualities and thereby not giving the taste to the tongue and support to the individual parts of the body. I can just quote the two vegetables - Drumsticks and brinjals (baingan). While cooking the characteristic smell will be there, but by the time cooking is over there will be nothing. They will neither absorb the spices put and taste sweet or tasteless. Some varieties of onions do not give tears while cutting them which is the very character of onion. Likewise many of the food grains (especially rice), fruits, vegetables, milk etc. have lost their original taste. I think because of this there is deterioration in the health of the human beings and new diseases are cropping up and that is why the human body has lost the resistance and even the strong antibiotics can not work. I am of the opinion that too much dose of inorganic fertilizers (rather medicine) to the agricultural lands has been given which has become poisonous and the produce from the lands have also become poisonous resulting in to high production only but very low in nutritional quality. A proper approach is to be given by the agricultural/horticultural/veterinary scientists to revive the fertility of lands by removing the toxicity and use of bio-manure to bring back the original seeds to produce nutritive and energetic food produce. Lastly, I would like to express that for everything foreign technology is not the remedy and it is not good too. more
Jul 31
Currently soils, be it irrigated or dry land, across the country is degraded with the imbalance use of Fertilizers, a practice forced upon the farmers of this country due to the faulty Fertilizers pricing policy pursued by successive Govt. Low productivity & quality of our crop produce despite use of high yielding crop varieties is mainly due to the state of our soils, an after effect of so called intensive Agri practice pursued after the wheat revolution. Our farming can become remunerative only when our crop productivity & quality can be addressed. Use of quality organic manure will not only address the soil correction issues but by default prevent nutrient imbalance. A reduction in up to 50% of nitrogenous Fertilizers generally having high leaching losses in irrigated crop, can also help reducing subsidy outflow & saving valuable foreign exchange. The panacea for the described ills can be our Cows. Currently technology Is a available in India to use Cow dung & city/ farm green waste a renewable source of organic matter to be used as the basic ingredient to manufacture non bulky, ready to use products suitable for our soils to reduce dependence on Inorganic Fertilizers. more
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