Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Call to bring in development in Agriculture sector
Last week my fried invited me to accompany him to his village, being on weekend and got nothing to do, I thought let me enjoy the beauty of nature. I’s very excited to visit his village, wanted to see those green farms, cattle and mud houses. When I visited that village all my expectations and excitement drastically reduced, looking at the site I was completely disappointed.I could hardly see any green fields, the lands were dry and unused, and there were no signs of green fields, I spoke to people over their and got to know that the plight is because of poor production even after investing a huge amount on good fertilizers and seeds. The villagers did not wanted to take any more risk and decided to work on daily wages in nearby factories. This sounded like a very huge problem from their end, but when I tried to analyze, the problem was very little, they needed guidance and proper techniques and new technology to increase their cultivation. They had enough water to grow crops, but the only problem was they are not able to increase the production level. I’s very helpless because I had very little knowledge about farming, I would definitely want to help these villagers to get back to their farming, can any body help me out?
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I appretiate what your doing and also looking forward for more help,the kind of approach your looking for is already been implemented by NASSCOM Foundation.Heres one of their achievements,i'm sure it will help you out.
"Sunil Jadhav from the NKN telecentre situated in Wathar, in Maharashtra is an agri- entrepreneur. He has completed his post graduation in agriculture and a certificate course in agri entrepreneurship. He started a small venture where he could market agricultural products required by farmers for their farming. In December 2006 with support from NASSCOM Foundation and Suraj Foundation he integrated ICTs to his existing set up - This functional scale-up enabled him to not only provide -IT skills training, and computer-aided learning programmes for children and adults - he also started aiding farmers with the best price for their produce. This has helped the local farmers to get timely and important information enabling them to improve their productivity and their income. This social service on education and health, helped Sunil to build a trust with the local community who flocked to him for advice on farming and related issues. His small enterprise flourished. Finding this enterprise fulfilling, his family has now started contributing to the running of the NKN telecenter. Since they earn enough from their enterprise, they have decided to give IT training free of cost to villagers and farmers thus taking his work forward to a larger mass. He also started a farmer’s club."
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