Category: Agriculture

Vadamalai mission is clear! We consider farmers success is our success! Whatever we undertake, we strive for making the farmers succeed. in their investments, in their maximisation of their incomes and profits. Also, we are clear that wherever farmers face problems we strive to solve them. In a practical way. We are a strategic consulting…

This government doesn’t have a vision or a plan for agriculture Yes, it is nice to hear the Prime Minister speaking at the 10th Plan mid-term appraisal about missing our economic growth target! It is none other than agriculture! It doesn’t take such a long time and so much of labour and so many brains…

USA `industrial’ agriculture enjoys high subsidies Agriculture-dependent countries get no subsidies! Indian agriculture is very different from what we see in advanced countries or small countries in Central Asia or Africa.In the USA agriculture is becoming an industrial activity. There big agri/food companies have emerged as the big buyers of agri products. Thus, McDonalds, the…

End the collectors’ Raj! First step is the Right to Information Act! Indian bureaucracy is not trained to part with information under the law. Under the existing law, there is so much official secrecy and everyone, from the ministers to the secretaries to the petty village clerk is accustomed to browbeat the poor and the…

There is a real shortage of skilled manpower in agri sector! Or, for undertaking consultancy business management of various new agro ventures We are experiencing a severe shortage of people with requisite skills to work in the agri sector. To draw up strategic development projects in new crops, new agribusiness models, what is now called…

Time to partly privatise and for private participation. There was this news recently. The Union Minister for Planning M.A.Raja Shekaran, a senior politician from Karnataka had participated at the Bangalore based Agriculture University on a, mouthful topic, called “Extension of methodological issues in impact assessment of agriculture and rural development programmes”. From the way this…

Bihar : what next? Rural India continues to bleed! The urban English press is full of news from Lalu Yadav’s Bihar. This is election time, with Congress trying to outwit Lalu who is a master of the game of outwitting! Yes, the continuous abduction news make the state a dark corner of India! So, what…

The cry of the hour! Every agri sector is getting thoroughly bureaucratised! The way all the other initiatives in the past had turned out to be. Take Nabard itself. It had grown into well-entrenched bureaucracy, no further innovation under the existing Nabard setup is possible. There are on paper Nabard officials at every district. But…