Friday, December 24, 2010

We need a new green revolutuion!!

Farming the life of our country,the career option for the aam adami.The source for food.Our agriculture industry is strong enough to sustain our hungry stomachs.We even export our vegetables and milk products.Then how come we see farmers committing suicide,how come politicians are going on a hunger strike for the farmers,why are crop failing(the great onion fiasco),why do we so many problem?

Farming has been there for many centuries, but do we a see a space age revolution in this field.We dream of flying cars robots,smaller and smarter computers,exo-frames for our soldiers.We dream of an electronic revolution.But do see the same degree of progress in this field.We our education sector mass produce engineers and MBA grads to help create a booming India ,a country which is strong and powerful.The great Indian dream for better life.We see farmers migrating to the city for better jobs and opportunities .Nobody wants villages.

The reason I think responsible for the degradation of our agriculture is because of lack of new developments.The green and white revolution did its part and made us self sufficient ,but we haven't changed since the farmers still their old methods.Our country has made progress in many fields.But our agriculture industry is still stagnant.
The farmers are in bad state and most of us don't care about when the price of the vegetables rise blame the government .We need a new revolution,but cannot give farmers higher yield deed and loans.What we need is a tech savvy farmer.We need to educate them in such way that we don't need to red about framer suicides in the papers.There is an old saying,'if we gave a man a fish he won't go hungry for that day but if we teach him to fish he won't go hungry for the rest of his life'.We need a revolution that end the problems we face in agriculture and the best way to to do that is to educate the farmers.
We need farmers who can come up with innovative ideas.We need farmers who do not get cheated by hoarders.We need farmers who can utilize their land optimally.We can use our engineers to develop better technologies to help farmers.I read about an irrigation system which can be operated by mobiles,we similar innovative ides to take our farmers o the next level.Most of all we need a more pro active agriculture minister not like our lethargic Sharad Pawar.But most of all the point I am trying to make by beating around the bush is that we need farmers who are smart .The UPA (or for that matter even the NDA) govt should stop crying for the aam adami and start working for 'smart farmers'.We can become an IT power house ,we can also revolutionize  our agriculture industry.We Indians have the spirit but we are not utilizing it.Let us make agriculture a part of our growth story .The politicians should stop playing the blame game(onion fiasco) and start findind solution to the price rise and lack of storage facilities(our great agriculture minister refused to take the blame for that!!).I hope we have brighter future for our agricultuyr industry

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