Over
the last decade, farmers in India have faced a number of
challenges from an increasingly globalized food system and issues arising from
changes in world trade. Farmers have responded to these challenges in a number
of ways. It is time to teach them to adopt cost-saving technologies and attempt to increase farm productivity
and efficiency. Indian universities
must involve in
the rural development so as to improve the country’s economy. Climate change has emerged as a
major challenge to our agriculture, indeed to the management of our economy as
a whole. The immediate problems that our farmers face relate to intra-seasonal
variability of rainfall, extreme events and unseasonal rains. These aberrations
cause heavy loss to our crops every year.
There
is an urgent need to speed up our efforts to evolve climate-resilient
crop varieties,
cropping
patterns and
management practices. In this context, we must never forget that linkage with
farming communities is vital to enhance the efficiency and productivity of our agricultural research
system. This would help to blend modern science with traditional
knowledge and
make the system more responsive to the felt needs of our farmers.
In order to achieve the goals of “INTEGRATED APPROACH TO CONNECT ALL THE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES” the following need to be done collectively and effectively by Universities with the collaboration of NRI’s and NGO’s
BRIEF OUTLINE & MAJOR THRUST AREAS TO FOCUS UPON..
1.Helping
farmers to conserve water and its effective management.
2.Motivating
towards organic farming and use of Bio-fertilizers.
3.Making
farmers to adopt cost-saving technologies and to increase farm productivity and
efficiency,
4.Helping
to produce value-added Agri-products.
5.Bringing
awareness and health care in the rural & urban areas.
6.Helping
the farmers to involve in direct Marketing of Agri-Food products including online
marketing.
7.Developing
awareness on green cover and how to protect and improve the green belt.
8.Developing
solar installations
9.Helping
farmers to get more income from unit area by adopting mixed cropping system.
Let us
make our farmers to practice good Agriculture practices and
turn more profitable by following the steps below
❖ Selecting a village/Mandal by
interacting with village head / local people.
❖ Meeting with farmers to be
organized regularly.
❖ Motivating farmers towards organic
farming.
❖ Restoration of Traditional Crops,
Products and Trees in Rural India
❖ Increase the volumes Live stocks in
proportion to Population Growth.
❖ To produce to ready to
eat Traditional dishes through the rural Woman with Small scale Agro
industries.
❖ Process the agri output in rural market centers to supply
directly to the consumer
❖ Guiding the village community with
water, fertilizer management
❖ Identifying food crops and finding
their marketability and benefit sharing with the producer even on the final
price for which the product sold.
❖ Helping to create hygiene in their
habits (prevention is better than cure).
❖ Local Development Planning
❖ Natural Resources Management.
❖ Taking agriculture practices
into profitable, eco-friendly and for the production of safe food.
❖ Viable commercial farm management.
❖ Direct Marketing of Agri-Food
❖ Helping farmers to bring their
products closer to the consumer by adopting direct marketing and value-adding
principles.
❖ We need to develop policies
that encourage all levels of government to support the future development of
agricultural direct-marketing opportunities.
❖ Group farming with one or more
villages to share the resources like land, water, fertilizers, manpower
etc.
❖ Developing awareness on green cover
and how to protect and improve the green belt to protect the environment for
current and future generations.
❖ Creating awareness and developing
de-addiction centers to reduce use of alcohol and tobacco products to achieve
good health of our farmers and their families.
❖ Awareness on health insurance and
crop insurance to save the lives of the farmers.
❖ Monitoring every village as cost
centre by recording inputs and outputs annually to analyze the growth of the
farmers and village.
❖ To identify and multiply beneficial
microbes in the Soils
❖ To create job
opportunity for rural youths or Self Help Groups (SHGs)
by production and marketing of Agro-products.
❖ To encourage use of vermicompost,
organic manure and other bio-fertilizers
❖ Organic Pest management by using bio pesticides, botanical pesticides, organic
pesticides and natural control
❖ Green manuring and green leaf manuring using green legume leaves,
growing leguminous plants on bunds, borders of the field / farm etc.
❖ Every drop of water is to be
conserved through adoption of different soil and water conservation practices.
❖ Covering plots with crop residues or
other biodegradable materials to control weeds, conserve moisture, add biomass
etc.
❖ Effective weed management: Furrow irrigation in raised beds, mulching, cover crops,
use of well rotted cow dung manures, proper crop rotation, uprooting weeds
before seed formation etc.
❖ Appropriate crop
rotation according soil and land situation.
❖ No chemical fertilizers or
pesticides are to be used or slowly to be discouraged.
❖ We have to demonstrate different
low cost package of technologies for sustainable / organic
farming at Farmers' Field.
❖ To improve soil health.
❖ Explore the scope for rural
entrepreneurship development through production and marketing.
❖ Selection of Village: A cluster of
five villages of high cropping intensity are to be selected by each team.
❖ Participatory Appraisal of
natural resources and livelihoods with special reference to agriculture and
allied sectors in selected villages
❖ Group formation/use of local groups
with continuous follow up: At least one group of progressive farmers from each
village is to be selected.
❖ Need-based Training on organic input
preparation/sustainable farming technologies etc.
❖ To help cross visit of farmers among
villages.
❖ Replication of the model and use of
trained farmers in Field of neighboring villages
❖ Use low cost organic
technologies will be effective with higher
productivity, profitability, sustainability and higher input use efficiency in
sustainable agriculture.
❖ Effective linkages need to be
strengthened between farmers’ groups and government agencies
❖ Let us use locally available
resources, which can play a vital role in ushering second and ever green
revolution in India involving the resource poor farmers of our country.
❖ Starting chain of hotels (Ethnic
cafe) on national highways with standard healthy diet with local
village ethnic foods
❖ Providing opportunities to local
agriculture farmers to sell their products without middle men to the consumers
directly benefiting both through our value chain.
❖ To educate the farmers about Global
Best Practices like
❖ To promote Solar Roof tops for green
electricity
❖ Green cleaning - Dish washing with
Natural products like Lime and salt
❖ Organic Cosmetics - Shampoos or Face
creams.
❖ Ethanol and Gobar Gas for fuel.
❖ Janumu, Gogu for Grocery carry bags
to replace plastic bags
❖ Natural Soaps, Tooth Brush and
Paste.
❖ Natural curing medicines with Neem,
Tulasi, Lime, Cow urine etc.
❖ Hand loom clothing with natural
colors
We can achieve higher agricultural
productivity through use of water very precisely and rely heavily on nature
inputs. And we will not have a looming concern on climate change. The glorious
history of institutions located in India and the quality of the young
minds being trained for today shows that we have the intellectual and
institutional capacity to overcome all challenges and make our Andhra Pradesh a
prosperous state.
As per the call given by Hon'ble
Sri N Chandra Babu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, let us
devote two days (on holidays) for the development of the state and country.
“Let us join hands for the safe
and healthy development of our A.P.”
For more information we welcome your participation
Kyoshi Prof.G.Sudarsanam
Department of Botany
S.V.University, Tirupati- 517 502
Cell : 9989053632
E-mail : gudivadalk@gmail.com
or
Mr. Siva Lankipalle
11901, 176th street
Artesia, Los Angeles CA – 90701
E-mail : siva.lankipalle@yahoo.com
Cell : 630-776-7451
E-mail : siva.lankipalle@yahoo.com
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