TONGUE  CULTURE VS AGRICULTURE Venkaiah Naidu Garu hails from Agricultural family in Nellore Dist, AP. It is really unfortunate that he forgot the roots and provoking farm sector by making erotic and inconsistent statements like "loan waiver became fashion" , loans shall be waived in extreme conditions only etc. In fact he is the one who promised loan waiver during TN elections and later followed by PM in UP elections. Why to promise in first place and later making jokes ou t of it. Is it good on anyone's part to play with lives of farmers like this? If advanced states in agriculture like Maharastra, TN, Karnataka, AP are seeing a crisis agrarian situation and going with loan waiver as immediate solution, can GOI ministers take different stand and create confusion? In fact it has become fashion for every minister except agriculture minister to talk about farm sector and pass sarcastic comments despite the head of the Government promising unconditional loan ...

Hi Friends, Indian Agriculture is doing well with bumper harvests, but our farmers are unhappy. They have resorted to agitations all over India. Stopping of Milk and vegetables to Mumbai for 3 days had caused immense difficulties to 12 million Mumbaikars. What will happen if similar situation is repeated in  Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai,Kolkatta and other metros. People living cities working as employees and doing business must realise that the policy makers have let down the farmers. Politicians are not trustworthy because they neglect farmers. Congress has not implemented Dr. Swaminathan Report for 3 years. Mr. Modi before becoming PM , promised to implement the above report. But in 3 years he refused keep his promises. In addition he has created problems by importing large quantities of Agri. commodities. This has caused huge losses to farmers. Mr. Modi announced Loan Waiver in UP assembly elections, but refusing to implement 2014 parliament Electio...

CAN A NATION REALLY GROW TALL WHEN IT'S OVER 30% OF CHILDREN HAVE RETARDED GROWTH AND UNDER NOURISHED!! As published in "EENADU " Telugu daily on 15.06.17 quoting UNICEF survey in AP, over 50% of women are suffering with severe blood deficit particularly in productive age group. Drinking water, sanitation, poverty, socioeconomic conditions, functional literacy etc are the main causes reflecting in under weight and retarded growth of children. As reported over 60% of income of poor is being spent on basic food. What is happening to "A to Z welfare programs " already in force and being announced on daily basis. It has become order of the day for ruling parties to announce or rename old programs ,rather than giving serious look into reach, spread and accountability. End result or out come is that the delivery is more to contractors/ corrupt Systems's web or getting into drains rather than reaching real and needy poor people. If we do not take these...

AGRICULTURE PRODUCE MARKETING – NEED FOR  INNOVATIONS Role of existing APMCs: APMCs are started with a purpose of protecting farmers from distress sale at farm gate to money lenders and traders. Direct sale of Agri produce by farmers at village to any intermediaries, end users is banned and farmers are supposed to bring produce to APMC markets and sell in auction method under the supervision of APMC.   Certain states relaxed the norms and allowed few wholesalers like ITC are allowed to conduct direct purchases under e-choupal platform. Also direct sales to super markets , more trade friendly norms are being initiated in few states. Karnataka is more advanced state as far as APMC reforms are concerned followed by Maharashtra, MP, AP, UP.  IT enabled auction platform was implemented in few mandis through NCDEX and its named as “mandi modernisation program”. Government of India dec...

AAP KA KHANA – KISAN KA BHAROSA (ONE STOP SOLUTION FOR HEALTHY FOOD BASKET) Introduction: With the threat of plastic rice, artificial milk and milk products, adulterated oils etc being in circulation, the need for authentic food supply chain with quality assurance, localised taste and conventional processing/preparations is being felt. This concept of local sourcing, value addition and efficient supply chain with robust technology interface has huge potential, provided the concept is implemented more out of passion coupled with genuine interest to serve the producer & end user. Once things are positioned properly it has huge potential to scale it up and makes good economic sense too.  This will eliminate many layers in supply chain, thereby give economic opportunities to farmers and also create employment to rural poor particularly women. The localized rural enterprises such as conventional rice /dhal mills, atta girnis, oil extraction units, local dairies, conven...

BGR comments on recent farmer arrests at Khammam, Telangana is going on in our Telugu states ? Farmers participating in dharna demanding fair price for their produce are hand cuffed and put in jail ?? Is this the way, the farmers should be dealt with ? Can anyone say that  these farmers run away from police ? One elder farmer is even unable to get down the police vehicle without support. Police personnel also might have come from farming families ? No creature can survive a day without a farmer. Technology can't make you live without food, which is being grown and supplied to us by a farmer. I feel farmer profession is more noble profession than a medical profession. I feel proud to be an agricultural graduate and a farmer. Please respect farmers. With a heavy heart, I condemn this act. BGR