Ongole Cattle Breed- Pride of India- Wealth of Brazil  Introduction: "ONGOLE" breed cattle also known as " NELORE" in Brazil & few other countries, is native to Andhra Pradesh, more specific to parts of Prakasam, Nellore, Guntur and Kurnool districts.  Original name is only Ongole, when the breed reached Brazil in 1868, the ongole thaluk was part of Nellore district under Madras presidency and Brazilians named the breed as "NELORE". In the breeding tract, it's a practice to leave the best male calf to God and name it as BRAHMAN and use for natural breeding.  Subsequently Nelore breed was exported to USA & from there to Australia and few countries and became popular there with the name " BRAHMAN" . You may be surprised to know that this breed originated from AP, India is ruling the beef economy of the world with over 65% market share. It is the first Indian breed to gain worldwide recognition. Breeding tract: As docum...

Indian Urban Perspective – Introspection At present Indian urban population is about 38 Crores (32% of total population) and its growing at a rapid phase and even Government’s focus is on urbanization. Urban situation in India is totally different when compare to western countries due to our socio-cultural factors other than the employment generation.  For example city like New York (USA) with about 8.5 million population, is having about 90% of the population who are self dependent and attend to their domestic needs on their own. Indian situation is totally different with about 60% require domestic help and 25% drivers, other than security and other support systems. Indian cities Delhi- 23 , Mumbai – 20, Kolkata- 14.5 , Chennai- 8.9, Bangalore 8.6,  Hyderabad – 7.9 million population , closely followed by Ahmadabad, Pune, Nagpur  with average 20% population living in slums, another 30% population with below/middle incomes looking for rental incomes, having a la...

Welcoming the transport bill amendment act 2016. The increase in fatal road accidents is real concern and concrete steps to minimise them are required. Hopefull y the new act is a step towards the same. In last 10 years our road conditions improved and the public particularly the rural population are not educated towards usage of improved roads. Still we find on national highways - grazing of cattle in road dividers, margins, people crossing roads on slow phase, tractors crossing the road across the divider etc. These are main reasons for fatal accidents other than drunken driving, over speed etc. The new act is limited to the extent of increased fines etc and it serves limited purpose only. Series of steps like complete ban on liquor shops on highways, educating public on road safety, web based monitoring of persons related to road safety and maintenance etc needs immediate attention of policy makers. Strict monitoring of traffic police, transport Dept and other related sta...

AMARAVATI "THE CAPITAL OF ANDHRA PRADESH"- FUTURE VISION AMARAVATI- It's a dream project of Telugus, got the attention of Telugus living across the globe and even many other nations. Thanks to the uncompromising vision of Chief Minister Sri. Chandrababu Naidu Garu (CBN), the entire road map of capital is being highlighted everywhere, and no wonder " AMARAVATI " is  talk  of world in no time. LAND POOLING: The selection of location for establishing capital city  is prerogative of people's elected  Government. Existing infrastructure i.e., Vijayawada & Guntur cities, presence of two National Highways, Existing Airport & Rail hub, Krishna River, central location of state coupled with historical importance, made the present location natural choice and even the opposition parties had left with no choice than accepting the  selection without criticism. The land pooling system adopted by the state is very unique model,  acceptable to farmers ...

Is The Indian Farmer , Karna- Sacrificing Warrior? - Impact of corporate health care on farmers Effect of Corporate Health Care on Rural India:   Corporate Education acts as slow poison on farmers, whereas corporate health care is instant killer. Successive Governments created reasonably good infrastructure in villages with primary health centres, Hospitals. Striking imbalances will be there in terms of coverage. The  roadside villages, constituencies represented by heavy weights will be over saturated and still find uncovered villages in remote & backward areas. If the top down approach is followed, the country could have reached saturation point and budget can be better utilized for maintenance. Similar gaps will be observed in staffing. RTI tool shall be used to balance these imbalances rather than focusing on individual transfers, pay scales etc. Like in education, corporates entered health sector in big way and multispecialty hospitals mushro...

Is The Indian Farmer , Karna- impact of corporate education on farmer Effect of Corporate Education on Rural India:   Till early 90s the primary & high school education in villages was very good and no way inferior to convent education. It fact the rural students used to do well in mathematics & science in comparison to city schools.  Cutting across all castes & class, everyone used to study in  same schools.  The village school infrastructure is good with large play grounds. The credit goes to committed teachers, philanthropists &  initial base created by progressive thinking  panchayat raj  political system. The cost of education is almost free. Early 90s convent schools got inroads first into few villages & slowly spread their base everywhere. In fact these village convent teachers are less qualified than Government schools, but the catch is non telugus, spoken English & attractive school dress. In no time c...

  Is Indian Farmer - Karna, Sacrificing Warrior?- External factors influencing the farmers present situation It is not utterly butterly great tasting buttery spread. Unfortunately it is utterly bitterly  catch 22 situation the Indian farmer is in. With families shifting to towns in search of education, the family labour component including the farmer has come down drastically. This results into increased cost of production, low productivity & inconsistent quality of produce, resulting in lower realization.     With incomes not matching with expenditure, both for Agriculture & running the family, many of the farmers are getting into debt trap.  Gold loans,  crop loans, Baniya loans, crop advances, input loans  what not, they are desperate. Certainly this was not the situation of farmers till early 90s. CASE STUDY: I come from a family owned two acres of land. We are two siblings studied in village school til...

Is Indian Farmer , Karna - Sacrificing Worrier? - Farmer issues As published by GOI, total crop area sown in 2015-16 is 693.83 as against 550.42 Lakh hectares in 2014-15. Is it good news for farmers? Intellectual opinions reinstate that contribution of Agriculture to GDP is coming down in percentage terms & it's not  remunerative profession. Even so called progressive thinking policy makers are talking about need for shifting to alternative professions  like service sector, production etc. If these think tank policies are under implementation, how the population depending on Agriculture & area sown are going up? Are the figures quoted above are inconsistent or the shift from Agriculture is really not happening? The problems of farmers increase many fold, with increased acreage under cultivation, increase in number of small & marginal farmers, fragmented land holdings, increased % of lease cultivation, doubtable quality inputs in markets, erratic...