My dear friends: Let's say all goes well for us and we have a good harvest. Will it bring prosperity in our lives? Will the harvested crop turn into money? Till date nobody has been able to give us a definite answer on this.In areas like the delta regions our farmers know how to get good...
My dear friends: What is the main objective of you doing agriculture? Most of you will say earning earning money. Agriculture is just not a service. It is a vocation. Nothing is free here. Everything comes with a price. Successful agriculture involves deploying a tested method to reduce input...
My dear friends: Our country’s daily turnover from vegetables and fruits could be easily about Rs 290 crore (US$ 59 million). The estimated cost of ‘wastage’ per day is around Rs 100 to Rs 140 crore (US$ 27 million), which is a lot more than the daily turnover of some of the big industrial...
Gone are the days when vegetables and fruits needed to be got from the field. Today the concept of terrace gardening has hit practically every district in the state and there are hundreds of terrace gardens today not only in individual homes but in gated communities as well. But for any garden...
My dear friends: Following my interaction with you last week, some called me to say that marketing is the main problem in agriculture. Some said I should be aware of it since I am a farmer myself. What can be done to improve marketing under the present scenario? We read about delta farmers...
The only objective of today’s education is to help get a job and an assured income. But what about those who are educated and still not able to get a job? How do they manage their life? Well a young civil engineer S Rajadurai from Ariyalur seems to have an answer for this. Armed with a diploma...
The Government’s decision to consider an MSP for organic crops seems to have evoked a mixed response from some leading organic farmers in the state. Speaking to inmathi.com, Dr M J Narasimhan a leading organic farmer and doctor for last several decades in Kanchipuram district says, “The report...
We all have seen roads in cities and villages named after some famous persons. But do you know that in Chitoor district, Vemur block in Andhra Pradesh there is a road named after a vegetable? Yes you have read it right- a vegetable. The road and entire the village is called as Brinjal Street....
My dear farming friends, last month our Prime Minister inaugurated a fertilizer production factory in Orissa. The news was, as was typical, shared in different media. It is some news yes, but for farmers like us it raises certain questions? What is the need for sinking so many crores for a new...
Dear farming friends, following last week’s column on the need for farmers to make their own inputs, I received several mails, messages and phone calls. Seventy percent of those who responded said it was the right time for farming groups to take up such practices, but the sceptics demanded...
