New generation averse to farming in India
Friday, 22 January 2010
NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (Commodity Online): With population pressure multiplying on the earth, there is a rising tension, more dangerous than the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) style global warming - and that is drop in global farm production.
Every business graduate in this globe is trained to sell farm commodities or its related products, not to see from where their basic resources will get generated. So the CEO of Cadbury's or McDonalds makes sure he sells his chocolates and Hot Dogs to as many customers but cares least where the cocoa or potatoes will come from.
It was this need that gave birth to contract farming which gives guaranteed products to pre-determined clients on a pre-defined condition on price and quality.
By business management institutes, this is very simple. Just increase farm production and the prices will automatically come down. A simple theory of demand and supply. But how can the farm workers increase their production without capital to invest even in their existing farm supplies?
So another option is to ensure they get new plant varieties and high quality seeds to prove a dynamic and sustainable agriculture according to Indian agriculture minister, Sharad Pawar.
But having said so, the expected 20 to 40 per cent fall in farm producting in the next 15 years on account of rising temperatures could also be a Himalayan blunder. However what is certain is the population rise, which needs to be capped if the earth has to survive.
While inaugurating the National Seed Congress in the capital city, the minister said increased public and private investment in the seed sector is required for the long-term if agriculture is to meet the challenges of food security and modern biotechnology and molecular breeding and associated methods for attaining increased production and productivity must be harnessed. Apart from genetic enhancement, other technologies related to quality seed production and quality enhancement techniques contribute substantially to improved seeds.
Every business graduate in this globe is trained to sell farm commodities or its related products, not to see from where their basic resources will get generated. So the CEO of Cadbury's or McDonalds makes sure he sells his chocolates and Hot Dogs to as many customers but cares least where the cocoa or potatoes will come from.
It was this need that gave birth to contract farming which gives guaranteed products to pre-determined clients on a pre-defined condition on price and quality.
By business management institutes, this is very simple. Just increase farm production and the prices will automatically come down. A simple theory of demand and supply. But how can the farm workers increase their production without capital to invest even in their existing farm supplies?
So another option is to ensure they get new plant varieties and high quality seeds to prove a dynamic and sustainable agriculture according to Indian agriculture minister, Sharad Pawar.
But having said so, the expected 20 to 40 per cent fall in farm producting in the next 15 years on account of rising temperatures could also be a Himalayan blunder. However what is certain is the population rise, which needs to be capped if the earth has to survive.
While inaugurating the National Seed Congress in the capital city, the minister said increased public and private investment in the seed sector is required for the long-term if agriculture is to meet the challenges of food security and modern biotechnology and molecular breeding and associated methods for attaining increased production and productivity must be harnessed. Apart from genetic enhancement, other technologies related to quality seed production and quality enhancement techniques contribute substantially to improved seeds.