DOES SLOGANS MAKE FORTUNES FOR LEADERS? 9 historic political slogans Jai jawan Jai kisan -1965- LBS- Historic mandate for congress in 1967 Garibi Hatao-1971- IG- landslide victory for new congress in 1971. Indira hatao Desh Bachao-1977- JPN- Janata party rule Ek sherini sau langur-1978- Devraj Urs- IG win in Chikamaglur bielection and return of congress in 1980 Jab Tak Suraj Chand Rahega Indira Tera Naam Rahega-1984 - sympathy wave after indira assignation Bari bari sabki bari -abki bari atal bihari -1996- first Bjp govt Jai jawan jai kisan jai Vignan -1998- ABV- 1999 clear mandate for BJP Congress ka haath -aam admi ke saath - 2004 -brought back congress rule India Shining - 2004- VN & Pramod Mahajan - turned as reverse missile (BJP shining India fading) and ABV lost power despite his clean image Compiled by BGR

FAMILY ENGAGEMENT - PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURE Today I happened to be be in  my village Kollipara, Krishna Delta in Guntur dist known for its highly fertile soils with abundant water resources. My interactions with few farmers from Reddy community revealed that own farming is uneconomical and many of them are leasing out lands to farmers from SC and BC communities. It is interesting to note that for this new generation farmers ,agriculture is giving decent livelihood other than elevated social status I.e., agri labourer to cultivator. It is possible because of involvement of their entire family in agri operations, resulting in better productivity and operational efficiency. In upper class communities like Reddys, Kammas etc who are traditionally farmers, the entire womenfolk is almost out of agri operations and men seldom work. The over dependency on external labour resulting in lower productivity and inefficient operations resulting in lower  production. My interactions wi

IMPACT OF INDISCRIMINATE IMPORT OF AGRI. PRODUCTS In fact I mentioned about indiscriminate import of Agri produce and it's negative impact on our farmers in my recent blogs. Despite bumper production India food imports gone by 110 times in last three years. What is the need for such imports by reducing /zero import duty and making local markets unremunerative to local farmers, in turn farmers are getting into agitation mode? Whom are these unwarranted policies benefiting? Is the consumers benefited? I really doubt. As I know the influential links in the supply chain made tons and tons of notes. As it was given to understand GOI is seriously considering probing into the bofors issue again. In reality the dynamics involved in indiscriminate import of cereals, maize, pulses is creating doubt about the integrity of the system and looks to be on much larger scale than bofors. GOI under Sri Modi ji ,which is projected as clean govt has to look into the real dynamic

https://thewire.in/157527/india-agrarian-import-bill-2015-2016-farmers/ Requesting friends to read the above article. In fact I mentioned about indiscriminate import of Agri produce and it's negative impact on our farmers in my recent blogs. Despite bumper production india food imports gone by 110 times in last three years. What is the need for such imports by reducing /zero import duty and making local markets unremunerative to local farmers, in turn farmers are getting into agitation mode? Whom are these unwarranted policies benefiting? Is the consumers benefited? I really doubt. As I know the influential links in the supply chain made tons and tons of notes. As it was given to understand, GOI is seriously considering probing into the bofors issue again. In reality the dynamics involved in indiscriminate import of cereals, maize, pulses is creating doubt about the integrity of the system and looks to be on much larger scale than bofors. GOI under Sri Modi ji ,

FAMOUS QUOTE: “The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.” » John F. Kennedy The situation reasonably changed in USA markets due to promotion of farmer markets and better bargaining capacity of USA farmers due to large holdings and capacity to hoard the stocks. This famous quote from then USA president is very much relevant to Indian agriculture where over 70% of the farmers sell the  produce soon after harvest. Any attempts to alter this quote will certainly bring positive changes in Indian agrarian systems and it is the need of the hour. An innovative thinking with farmer centrist approach is the essence and more and more brains with commitment have to come forward to secure the lives of our bread growers. Youth has a major role to play, utilise some of your IT skills, technology, networking for innovations, value addition in agriculture markets, rather than saturating IOT/APP st