Final agriculture world 2015

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AGRICULTURE

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Echoing Sustainable Environment and Agriculture

Volume I Issue 1 Jan-2015 ` 70 I I

Agriculture: No More a Man's WorldAgriculture: No More a Man's World

Indian Seed Industry

Laws of Nature

Agro-Business

Indian Seed Industry

Laws of Nature

Agro-Business

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AGRICULTURE WORLDAGRICULTURE WORLD

EditorialEditor M.C. DominicDirector Shiny Emanuel

M.G. Vasan

Sr. ExecutiveEditor Dr. K.T. Chandy

Executive Editor G.S. Saini

Associate Editor S.S. Dogra

HeadResearch Services Abhijeet Banerjee

HeadContent Development Kumud Upadhaya

Research Assistant Nishant Kr. Taak

Hrituparna Banerjee

Junior Research Assistant Jayanti Das

Admin Head Chetram

HeadMarketing P.S. Saini

DGM Farha Khan

Sr. ManagerMarketing K.J. Saranya

ManagerMarketing Mehak Ali

Namita Shrivastava

Pratibha Joshi Bhatt

Pratima Joshi

Ritika Kotiyal

Sara Khan

Asst. ManagerMarketing Sarla Singh

Sarita Singh

Jyoti Sharma

Megha Sharma

Sr. ExecutiveMarketing Afsana Malik

Sujata Gautam

Chunki Bhutia

Many Pradhan

Dolly Singh

HeadCirculation Sanjay Kumar

Sr. ExecutiveCirculation Rahul Singh

Harashankar Mandal

Sukumar Dalai

Head PrePress Dharmendra Kumar

Designing Yogesh Kumar

Office Assistant Devendra Singh

Perm Kumar

Raju Jana

One who controls the food business controls the world. In the present globalized world, agriculture is no more an annual farm or household food producon

and consumpon aair, but an internaonally

industrialized complex business involving all kinds of agri

commodies, moving crisscross the world linking

nancial instuons, polical and policy making

structures and markeng organizaons. Obviously, present agriculture moves

forward on the economic and sociopolical rails. At the same me, everything

in agriculture is an everyday business for everybody. Warning signals are already

in the air that future wars will be fought for food and water.

However, the ulmate guiding principles of global agriculture are based on

certain natural environmental laws, which are highlighted in the arcle by Dr. K.

T. Chandy on ''Laws of Nature for Sustainable Environment and Agriculture''.

Can anyone at the micro of macro level, go against these immutable dictates of

our mother nature, which has never been ashed neither at the farmer's level or

at the internaonal levels like WTO, UN, FAO, G*, G20, BRIC, etc. as

enunciated in the this arcle.

Agribusiness has its own shackles like many other business in the

world. Pricing and export policies are most prominent among them. Giving

examples of sugar, rice and edible oil in the arcle on ''Unshackle the Agro

Business from short term quick xes'' by Tejinder Narang highlighted the

shackles in agribusiness.

The microscopic aspect of the globalized agriculture is the seed, the

smallest bundle of genec material and prime maer for any crop producon

acvity. The seed is no more in the hands of the farmer, but it is with the

mulnaonal companies guided by the world business regulang bodies like

WTO and other policy making bodies. The arcle on " Economic and Polical

Signicance of Indian Seed Industry'' by Vijay Sardana highlights various

aspect of seed industry in India which is the cradle of many crops and related

biodiversies.

Like in every other eld, the gender aspect in agriculture is being

highlighted in the arcle on "Agriculture: No More a Man's World" by Dr K C

Ravi, emphasizing the role of women in agriculture not as mere workers, but

as equal business partners. Agriculture is linking women globally. Hence, the

colour and tenor of global agribusiness will be counterpoised by gender

aspects.

In any producon and markeng business, the role of technology is crucial.

Skill development at every level of operaons in producon, processing and

markeng (PPM) is emphasized by the head of Bayer CropScience, Joerg

Rehbein. Bayer's set of capacity building and training acvies include more

than thousands of eld demonstraons on farm training and eld days,

workshops, SMS call advisory and most importantly: on farm consultancy. As in

every other eld, agribusiness has to be rooted in the latest scienc

knowledge, grow and frucfy in ever expanding technical knowhow's. The role

of the theorecal and praccal research and technology development can never

be overemphasized.

Indian Agriculture employs about 51% of the 1.23 billion populaon.

Infact, the introducon of advanced techniques in agriculture has changed the

face of Indian Agriculture. Dr. Devraj Arya explains in his arcle'' Technologies

Crucial for Sustainable Agriculture'', the importance and benets of the usage of

technologies in agriculture.

Hope Agriculture World will iniate a discussion and debate on the

various issues of global agribusinessculture which is the fulcrum of global

economy.

M C Dominic

EditorinChief

IN THIS ISSUE

Printed and Published by M. C. Dominic

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Email: [email protected], [email protected], www.krishijagran.com

Printed at : New Pushpak Prass Pvt. Ltd. 203, 204 DSIDC Complex,

Okhla Industrial Area, Phase 1, New Delhi 110020

Laws of Nature.....................................................................04

Agro-Business......................................................................11

Indian Seed Industry............................................................13

Agriculture: No More a Man's World....................................16

Promoting Skill Development in Indian Agriculture..............17

Technologies Crucial for Sustainable Agriculture................22

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EditorialEditor M.C. DominicDirector Shiny Emanuel

M.G. Vasan

Sr. ExecutiveEditor Dr. K.T. Chandy

Executive Editor G.S. Saini

Associate Editor S.S. Dogra

HeadResearch Services Abhijeet Banerjee

HeadContent Development Kumud Upadhaya

Research Assistant Nishant Kr. Taak

Hrituparna Banerjee

Junior Research Assistant Jayanti Das

Admin Head Chetram

HeadMarketing P.S. Saini

DGM Farha Khan

Sr. ManagerMarketing K.J. Saranya

ManagerMarketing Mehak Ali

Namita Shrivastava

Pratibha Joshi Bhatt

Pratima Joshi

Ritika Kotiyal

Sara Khan

Asst. ManagerMarketing Sarla Singh

Sarita Singh

Jyoti Sharma

Megha Sharma

Sr. ExecutiveMarketing Afsana Malik

Sujata Gautam

Chunki Bhutia

Many Pradhan

Dolly Singh

HeadCirculation Sanjay Kumar

Sr. ExecutiveCirculation Rahul Singh

Harashankar Mandal

Sukumar Dalai

Head PrePress Dharmendra Kumar

Designing Yogesh Kumar

Office Assistant Devendra Singh

Perm Kumar

Raju Jana

One who controls the food business controls the world. In the present globalized world, agriculture is no more an annual farm or household food producon

and consumpon aair, but an internaonally

industrialized complex business involving all kinds of agri

commodies, moving crisscross the world linking

nancial instuons, polical and policy making

structures and markeng organizaons. Obviously, present agriculture moves

forward on the economic and sociopolical rails. At the same me, everything

in agriculture is an everyday business for everybody. Warning signals are already

in the air that future wars will be fought for food and water.

However, the ulmate guiding principles of global agriculture are based on

certain natural environmental laws, which are highlighted in the arcle by Dr. K.

T. Chandy on ''Laws of Nature for Sustainable Environment and Agriculture''.

Can anyone at the micro of macro level, go against these immutable dictates of

our mother nature, which has never been ashed neither at the farmer's level or

at the internaonal levels like WTO, UN, FAO, G*, G20, BRIC, etc. as

enunciated in the this arcle.

Agribusiness has its own shackles like many other business in the

world. Pricing and export policies are most prominent among them. Giving

examples of sugar, rice and edible oil in the arcle on ''Unshackle the Agro

Business from short term quick xes'' by Tejinder Narang highlighted the

shackles in agribusiness.

The microscopic aspect of the globalized agriculture is the seed, the

smallest bundle of genec material and prime maer for any crop producon

acvity. The seed is no more in the hands of the farmer, but it is with the

mulnaonal companies guided by the world business regulang bodies like

WTO and other policy making bodies. The arcle on " Economic and Polical

Signicance of Indian Seed Industry'' by Vijay Sardana highlights various

aspect of seed industry in India which is the cradle of many crops and related

biodiversies.

Like in every other eld, the gender aspect in agriculture is being

highlighted in the arcle on "Agriculture: No More a Man's World" by Dr K C

Ravi, emphasizing the role of women in agriculture not as mere workers, but

as equal business partners. Agriculture is linking women globally. Hence, the

colour and tenor of global agribusiness will be counterpoised by gender

aspects.

In any producon and markeng business, the role of technology is crucial.

Skill development at every level of operaons in producon, processing and

markeng (PPM) is emphasized by the head of Bayer CropScience, Joerg

Rehbein. Bayer's set of capacity building and training acvies include more

than thousands of eld demonstraons on farm training and eld days,

workshops, SMS call advisory and most importantly: on farm consultancy. As in

every other eld, agribusiness has to be rooted in the latest scienc

knowledge, grow and frucfy in ever expanding technical knowhow's. The role

of the theorecal and praccal research and technology development can never

be overemphasized.

Indian Agriculture employs about 51% of the 1.23 billion populaon.

Infact, the introducon of advanced techniques in agriculture has changed the

face of Indian Agriculture. Dr. Devraj Arya explains in his arcle'' Technologies

Crucial for Sustainable Agriculture'', the importance and benets of the usage of

technologies in agriculture.

Hope Agriculture World will iniate a discussion and debate on the

various issues of global agribusinessculture which is the fulcrum of global

economy.

M C Dominic

EditorinChief

IN THIS ISSUE

Printed and Published by M. C. Dominic

Agriculture World, 60/9, 3rd Floor, Yusuf Sarai Market,

Near Green Park Metro Station, New Delhi110016,

Tel: 01126511845, 26517923, Mob: 9313301029, 9654193353

Email: [email protected], [email protected], www.krishijagran.com

Printed at : New Pushpak Prass Pvt. Ltd. 203, 204 DSIDC Complex,

Okhla Industrial Area, Phase 1, New Delhi 110020

Laws of Nature.....................................................................04

Agro-Business......................................................................11

Indian Seed Industry............................................................13

Agriculture: No More a Man's World....................................16

Promoting Skill Development in Indian Agriculture..............17

Technologies Crucial for Sustainable Agriculture................22

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Anything done in agriculture and allied occupaons aect directly the whole environment. Hence, we

cannot think of agriculture without

thinking about environment. Today we

also know that most of the

environmental problems are man

made due to over exploitaon and

mismanagement of natural resources.

People all over the world have become

very conscious of the problems related

to environmental degradaon. At the

same me it is high me to realize that

there are some unwrien Laws of the

Nature based on which environment

management and developmental

programs have to be planned and

implemented. This is an aempt to

highlight those laws. Each law is

enunciated in bold type followed by a

short explanaon.

st

1 Law: Understand that on the

surface of the earth, there is an

opmum rao of 3:1 exists between

the area under water and the area

under land and man shall not alter

this proporon signicantly in his

management pracces of land and

water resources on the surface of the

earth. Land/soilwatercombinaon

forms the base for all the living things

on the earth.

The biggest water body on the

surface of the earth is sea which itself

covers about 70% of the surface of the

area of the earth. Besides sea, there

are other water bodies like lakes,

reservoirs, ponds, marshy lands,

swamps, mangroves, river systems etc.

on the land area, which make up 5%

more. Hence all the inland water

bodies should be protected and

preserved. All the rivers and streams

should have a protecve belt of forests

on both sides at least as wide as the

river or stream itself. Similar protecve

forests should be maintained all

around the lakes and reservoirs.

2nd Law: The proporon of

perennial forest area earmarked to

the nonforest area on the earth as a

whole or in a connent or a country

or a state or in a small watershed

area, should also be maintained at 3:1

rao. This compulsory forest area will

include all the areas above 33.3% or

15 degree slope.

There was a me the whole land

area was under forest and people and

animals lived in the forest and

depended on it for their necessies.

Gradually humans began clearing the

forest for culvaon, habitaon,

urbanizaon, instuonalizaon and

industrializaon. Today most of the

countries in the world do not even

have 30% of the area under forest. The

3:1 rao of forest and nonforest area

is the fundamental and underlying

principle in the preservaon of our

environment system. Countries like

Japan and Netherland maintain nearly

75% of the area under perennial

forest.

3rd Law: The land use paern for

agriculture and forestry related

acvies are strictly governed by the

degree or percentage of the slope of

the land: greater the slope of the land

more should be the perennial nature

of the forest or vegetave cover it

should have. Remember anything

done in forestry, agriculture, and

animal husbandry inuences directly

on the environment.

Laws of Nature for Sustainable Environment and Agriculture

LAWS OF NATURE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

AND AGRICULTURE


AND AGRICULTURE

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Some broad direcves of land use

paern under this law are given in

table 1 as follows. Slope can be

measured in percentage or degree.

Percentage of slope is esmated using

the formula vercal height/horizontal

length x 100 (V/H x 100) = % of slope).

The degree of slope varies from 0 to

90. Hence 100% slope is equivalent to

90 degree slope and one per cent

slope = 0.45 degree or one degree is

equal to 2.225 per cent slope. Both the

degree and percentage of slope

menoned in the table 1 are in

downward trend whereas the rao of

height to length of the slope follows an

upward trend.

4th. Law: Preserve all the ora

and fauna both on the land and in the

water.

All the living things in nature are

the result of millions and millions of

years of evoluon of which humans

are the end product. In other words

everything on earth is oriented

towards human welfare. Hence we

should preserve all the ora and fauna


No. V/H rao %of slope Degree Types of recommended land uses1 2

(/mt) (V/Hx100) of slope

(downward) (downward)

o

1 1:100% >45.00 Under perennial natural forests,

o

2 1:12 10050% 4522.5 Under perennial natural forests,

o

3 1:23 5033.3% 22.515 Under perennial natural forests,

o

4 1:34 33.325% 1511.2 Planted forests for commercial purpose

o

5 1:45 2520% 11.29.0 Planted forests for commercial purpose

o

6 1:56 2016.25% 97.50 Fruit trees, plantaon crops, fuel wood and mber trees, any perennial crop

o

7 1:67 16.214.3% 7.56.4 Fruit trees, plantaon crops, fuel wood and mber trees, any perennial crop

o

8 1:78 14.2812.5 6.46.2 Fruit trees, plantaon crops, fuel wood and mber trees, any perennial crop

o


o

10 1:910 11.110 5.04.5 Fruit trees, plantaon crops, fuel wood and mber trees, any perennial crop

1o

1 1:1015 106.6 4.53.0 Least broad terraced culvaon of unirrigated seasonal, annual & biannual crops,

o

12 1:1520 6.65 3.02.2 Lesser broad terraced culvaon of unirrigated seasonal, annual & biannual crops

o

13 1:2025 54 2.21.8 Less broad terraced culvaon of crops, seasonal, annual, annual & biannual crops,

o

14 1:2530 43.33 1.81.5 Broad terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual, annual & biannual crops,

o

15 1:3035 3.332.85 1.41.3 Broad terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual, annual & biannual crops,

o


o

17 1:4045 2.52.22 1.1.9 Wide terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual & biannual crops,

o


o

19. 1:50100 21.0 0.90.45 Wide terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual & biannual crops,

o

20 1:50100 01 100

Anything done in agriculture and allied occupaons aect directly the whole environment. Hence, we

cannot think of agriculture without

thinking about environment. Today we

also know that most of the

environmental problems are man

made due to over exploitaon and

mismanagement of natural resources.

People all over the world have become

very conscious of the problems related

to environmental degradaon. At the

same me it is high me to realize that

there are some unwrien Laws of the

Nature based on which environment

management and developmental

programs have to be planned and

implemented. This is an aempt to

highlight those laws. Each law is

enunciated in bold type followed by a

short explanaon.

st

1 Law: Understand that on the

surface of the earth, there is an

opmum rao of 3:1 exists between

the area under water and the area

under land and man shall not alter

this proporon signicantly in his

management pracces of land and

water resources on the surface of the

earth. Land/soilwatercombinaon

forms the base for all the living things

on the earth.

The biggest water body on the

surface of the earth is sea which itself

covers about 70% of the surface of the

area of the earth. Besides sea, there

are other water bodies like lakes,

reservoirs, ponds, marshy lands,

swamps, mangroves, river systems etc.

on the land area, which make up 5%

more. Hence all the inland water

bodies should be protected and

preserved. All the rivers and streams

should have a protecve belt of forests

on both sides at least as wide as the

river or stream itself. Similar protecve

forests should be maintained all

around the lakes and reservoirs.

2nd Law: The proporon of

perennial forest area earmarked to

the nonforest area on the earth as a

whole or in a connent or a country

or a state or in a small watershed

area, should also be maintained at 3:1

rao. This compulsory forest area will

include all the areas above 33.3% or

15 degree slope.

There was a me the whole land

area was under forest and people and

animals lived in the forest and

depended on it for their necessies.

Gradually humans began clearing the

forest for culvaon, habitaon,

urbanizaon, instuonalizaon and

industrializaon. Today most of the

countries in the world do not even

have 30% of the area under forest. The

3:1 rao of forest and nonforest area

is the fundamental and underlying

principle in the preservaon of our

environment system. Countries like

Japan and Netherland maintain nearly

75% of the area under perennial

forest.

3rd Law: The land use paern for

agriculture and forestry related

acvies are strictly governed by the

degree or percentage of the slope of

the land: greater the slope of the land

more should be the perennial nature

of the forest or vegetave cover it

should have. Remember anything

done in forestry, agriculture, and

animal husbandry inuences directly

on the environment.



AND AGRICULTURE


AND AGRICULTURE


Some broad direcves of land use

paern under this law are given in

table 1 as follows. Slope can be

measured in percentage or degree.

Percentage of slope is esmated using

the formula vercal height/horizontal

length x 100 (V/H x 100) = % of slope).

The degree of slope varies from 0 to

90. Hence 100% slope is equivalent to

90 degree slope and one per cent

slope = 0.45 degree or one degree is

equal to 2.225 per cent slope. Both the

degree and percentage of slope

menoned in the table 1 are in

downward trend whereas the rao of

height to length of the slope follows an

upward trend.

4th. Law: Preserve all the ora

and fauna both on the land and in the

water.

All the living things in nature are

the result of millions and millions of

years of evoluon of which humans

are the end product. In other words

everything on earth is oriented

towards human welfare. Hence we

should preserve all the ora and fauna


No. V/H rao %of slope Degree Types of recommended land uses1 2

(/mt) (V/Hx100) of slope

(downward) (downward)

o

1 1:100% >45.00 Under perennial natural forests,

o

2 1:12 10050% 4522.5 Under perennial natural forests,

o

3 1:23 5033.3% 22.515 Under perennial natural forests,

o

4 1:34 33.325% 1511.2 Planted forests for commercial purpose

o

5 1:45 2520% 11.29.0 Planted forests for commercial purpose

o

6 1:56 2016.25% 97.50 Fruit trees, plantaon crops, fuel wood and mber trees, any perennial crop

o

7 1:67 16.214.3% 7.56.4 Fruit trees, plantaon crops, fuel wood and mber trees, any perennial crop

o


o


o

10 1:910 11.110 5.04.5 Fruit trees, plantaon crops, fuel wood and mber trees, any perennial crop

1o

1 1:1015 106.6 4.53.0 Least broad terraced culvaon of unirrigated seasonal, annual & biannual crops,

o

12 1:1520 6.65 3.02.2 Lesser broad terraced culvaon of unirrigated seasonal, annual & biannual crops

o

13 1:2025 54 2.21.8 Less broad terraced culvaon of crops, seasonal, annual, annual & biannual crops,

o

14 1:2530 43.33 1.81.5 Broad terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual, annual & biannual crops,

o


o


o


o


o

19. 1:50100 21.0 0.90.45 Wide terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual & biannual crops,

o

20 1:50100 01 100

operaons in the farm becomes easier.

The plots are laid out for irrigated, un

irrigated, seasonal, annual and

perennial crops, the soil in each plot

will be maintained in the opmum

producve condion; applicaon of

manures and ferlizers can be

performed more eciently and the

maintenance of the soil ferlity

becomes easier; the movements of

people, animals and farm machineries

becomes easier, all the farm

operaons and movements in the farm

become easier and takes less me.

th

7 Law: The structured farm lands

should never be subjected to law of

inheritance to divide and subdivide

endlessly generaon aer generaon.

A structured farm operates like an

organic body or a compact machine.

Separate any organ from a human or

animal body, it will not funcon; or

remove part from a machine, the

machine will not work. Similarly a well

structured farm should not be divided

and subdivided under any

circumstance. At present, the law of

inheritance pracced in many parts of

the world divides and subdivides the

farm land into smaller landholdings.

One family owns several pieces of land

at dierent locaons. Ulmately the

family that owns them cannot

culvate or will not culvate as they

do not yield any income; it will be a

loss to culvate such small pieces of

land.

The present law of inheritance is

contrary to the principles of ecological

farm management. In many countries

the familyholding is not divided, but

one of the children inherits it and

takes care of it connuing the system

already established, while other

children will look for other jobs.

Therefore, all the farm land will have

connuity in the management of all

the operaons. Similar should be the

pracce in all the other farm related

enterprises like sheries and

aquaculture, dairy farming, beef cale

farming, pig farming, poultry farming,

forestry etc. Any farm land should be

part of a watershed system; and even

a single farm may be part of one or

more watershed system. In any farm

related operaon the organic maer

cycle and water cycle should be

established and maintained in order to

maintain the ecosystem of the farm in

a vibrant and producve condion.

th

8 Law: Organic and water cycle

should be established in every farm

holdings.

Organic maer is the soul of the

soil; just as a body without soul is

dead, so too soil without organic

maer will remain lifeless and

unproducve. Hence all the organic

maer generated within any

agricultural land should be converted

into organic manure and should be

incorporated into the soil to maintain

it's producvity. Hence nothing of any

organic maer should be burned

except rewood for fuel purposes, the

disease infected materials of plants,

animals and human beings. In many

countries cale dung mixed with straw

is used as fuel. Such burning of any

organic material is totally against

ecological principles and pracces in

the management of soil.

There are several methods of

converng the biomass into organic

manure. Composng refers generally

to natural method of recycling the

organic material. Pit and silo methods

are the ones usually employed in the

rural and semi urban areas. Silo

method of composng is more

suitable both in arid and rainfall areas.

There are also several other industrial

and mechanical methods of recycling

the organic materials and other

wastes. Adopt any method which is

most suitable to the place and people.

The point is that all the organic maer

generated anywhere in a

country/state/district/block/village/

farm/ household should be converted

into organic manure.

9th Law: All the biomass or

organic material generated within a

specic rural and agricultural land

area should be converted into organic

manure, which should be

incorporated into the culvated soil.

The organic maer is the soul of

the soil. Just like a dead body of a

human being the soil becomes lifeless

and unproducve when it is lacking in

organic maer. In order to maintain

the soil in higher level of producvity

and sustainability organic maer is an

essenal component in the culvated

soil. Even if one is using the

recommended dose of ferlizers use of

organic manures is essenal to

maintain sustainable producvity of

the soil.

10th Law: All the urban and

industrial organic and non organic

wastes whether, chemical, medical, in

liquid or solid form should be treated


to remove all the harmful substances

before recycling them into their

reusable byproducts.

Never allow any liquid or solid

wastes into river systems or into fresh

water inland lake systems and even

into the seas. There are technologies

available to recycle all the plasc

wastes, any type of metal wastes, glass

wastes and medical and slaughter

house and sh market wastes. The

resultant liquid poron from the

organic waste management should be

collected and packed into salable form

to be used as liquid manure.

Household level segregaon of waste

should be made compulsory in every

residenal areas. Similarly healthy and

safe disposal of wastes should be

made compulsory in any instuon or

industry.

11th Law: Use more and more

renewable sources of energy like bio

gas, solar, wind and dal waves

instead of the fossil sources. Common

people should be producers of energy

contribung to the naonal grid

instead of being only consumers.

We have proved technologies in

the use of solar, wind, biogas and dal

wave energy. Construcon of small or

large scale energy producon and

distribuon systems should be

promoted among the people as their

livelihood occupaons. The surplus

electrical energy generated should be

made available to the naonal grid.

Similarly solar energy should be used

for cooking food and for heang water.

At present all these are oponal; the

proposal of 'Agriculture World' is that

it should be made mandatory through

policy decision in every country.

12th Law: Facilies for collecon,

storage and use of rain water should

be part of the construcon of every

roof tops in the residenal,

instuonal and industrial complexes.

Water stored in the absence of

light or air or both will remain potable

for hundreds of years or forever. In

many countries people are sll

doubng about the potability of such

stored water. All the water sources

under the surface of the earth are

examples water stored thousands and

millions of years. Water should be

stored in the absence of sunlight even

if it has contact with air. Even in the

scanty rainfall areas of Rajasthan rain

water storage and use of the same is

an ancient pracce. What is needed,

such pracces should be improved and

promoted among the people. Besides,

judicious use of water should be made

mandatory.

13th Law: Healthy populaon is

an essenal component of a healthy

environment. Healthy nutrion and

healthy environment are the two

necessary condions for a healthy

populaon. Unhealthy and

irraonally behaving populaon is a

dead weight on the ecosystem.

a. It is an established fact that

most of the sicknesses and low body

resistance to various diseases is due

to under or malnourishment or

undernourishment.

It is an irony that both the rich

and poor are landing up in the same

hospital, the former for overeang and

the laer for undernourishment. The

problem starts at the me of

concepon and connues ll to the

death of an individual. Both among the

rich and poor regular and sucient

amount of vegetable consumpon is

rare. The cereals and millets provide

the people with energy while the

pulses, meat, sh etc. give protein. But

vegetables and fruits provide the

vitamins and minerals which are

equally important to energy and

protein. All the amino acids and micro

nutrients are very much essenal for

the brain development and mental

capacity building. There are 14

vitamins and 24 minerals that are

required for the human body. They are

available mostly in vegetables and

fruits only. As a thumb rule we can say

that one should consume at least one

handful each of cooked leafy

vegetable, root vegetable and

vegetables other than leafy and root

types. In addion, everyone should

consume one handful each of pieced

fruits and salad. For the proper

nutrion, one should consume all the

locally available vegetable and fruits

and not eat only according to his/her

likes and dislikes.

14th Law: Excessive

commercializaon of food and sex

degrades and degenerate humanity

and goes totally against a healthy and

vibrant populaon. Commercialized

food known as junk food degenerates

the physical and mental health of the

people while commercializaon of

sex and womanhood degenerates

social and moral life of the people.

A raonal human approach to

food and sex is necessary for ensuring

a healthy populaon which is a pre

requisite for maintaining a well

balanced ecosystem. An emoonally



operaons in the farm becomes easier.

The plots are laid out for irrigated, un

irrigated, seasonal, annual and

perennial crops, the soil in each plot

will be maintained in the opmum

producve condion; applicaon of

manures and ferlizers can be

performed more eciently and the

maintenance of the soil ferlity

becomes easier; the movements of

people, animals and farm machineries

becomes easier, all the farm

operaons and movements in the farm

become easier and takes less me.

th

7 Law: The structured farm lands

should never be subjected to law of

inheritance to divide and subdivide

endlessly generaon aer generaon.

A structured farm operates like an

organic body or a compact machine.

Separate any organ from a human or

animal body, it will not funcon; or

remove part from a machine, the

machine will not work. Similarly a well

structured farm should not be divided

and subdivided under any

circumstance. At present, the law of

inheritance pracced in many parts of

the world divides and subdivides the

farm land into smaller landholdings.

One family owns several pieces of land

at dierent locaons. Ulmately the

family that owns them cannot

culvate or will not culvate as they

do not yield any income; it will be a

loss to culvate such small pieces of

land.

The present law of inheritance is

contrary to the principles of ecological

farm management. In many countries

the familyholding is not divided, but

one of the children inherits it and

takes care of it connuing the system

already established, while other

children will look for other jobs.

Therefore, all the farm land will have

connuity in the management of all

the operaons. Similar should be the

pracce in all the other farm related

enterprises like sheries and

aquaculture, dairy farming, beef cale

farming, pig farming, poultry farming,

forestry etc. Any farm land should be

part of a watershed system; and even

a single farm may be part of one or

more watershed system. In any farm

related operaon the organic maer

cycle and water cycle should be

established and maintained in order to

maintain the ecosystem of the farm in

a vibrant and producve condion.

th

8 Law: Organic and water cycle

should be established in every farm

holdings.

Organic maer is the soul of the

soil; just as a body without soul is

dead, so too soil without organic

maer will remain lifeless and

unproducve. Hence all the organic

maer generated within any

agricultural land should be converted

into organic manure and should be

incorporated into the soil to maintain

it's producvity. Hence nothing of any

organic maer should be burned

except rewood for fuel purposes, the

disease infected materials of plants,

animals and human beings. In many

countries cale dung mixed with straw

is used as fuel. Such burning of any

organic material is totally against

ecological principles and pracces in

the management of soil.

There are several methods of

converng the biomass into organic

manure. Composng refers generally

to natural method of recycling the

organic material. Pit and silo methods

are the ones usually employed in the

rural and semi urban areas. Silo

method of composng is more

suitable both in arid and rainfall areas.

There are also several other industrial

and mechanical methods of recycling

the organic materials and other

wastes. Adopt any method which is

most suitable to the place and people.

The point is that all the organic maer

generated anywhere in a

country/state/district/block/village/

farm/ household should be converted

into organic manure.

9th Law: All the biomass or

organic material generated within a

specic rural and agricultural land

area should be converted into organic

manure, which should be

incorporated into the culvated soil.

The organic maer is the soul of

the soil. Just like a dead body of a

human being the soil becomes lifeless

and unproducve when it is lacking in

organic maer. In order to maintain

the soil in higher level of producvity

and sustainability organic maer is an

essenal component in the culvated

soil. Even if one is using the

recommended dose of ferlizers use of

organic manures is essenal to

maintain sustainable producvity of

the soil.

10th Law: All the urban and

industrial organic and non organic

wastes whether, chemical, medical, in

liquid or solid form should be treated


to remove all the harmful substances

before recycling them into their

reusable byproducts.

Never allow any liquid or solid

wastes into river systems or into fresh

water inland lake systems and even

into the seas. There are technologies

available to recycle all the plasc

wastes, any type of metal wastes, glass

wastes and medical and slaughter

house and sh market wastes. The

resultant liquid poron from the

organic waste management should be

collected and packed into salable form

to be used as liquid manure.

Household level segregaon of waste

should be made compulsory in every

residenal areas. Similarly healthy and

safe disposal of wastes should be

made compulsory in any instuon or

industry.

11th Law: Use more and more

renewable sources of energy like bio

gas, solar, wind and dal waves

instead of the fossil sources. Common

people should be producers of energy

contribung to the naonal grid

instead of being only consumers.

We have proved technologies in

the use of solar, wind, biogas and dal

wave energy. Construcon of small or

large scale energy producon and

distribuon systems should be

promoted among the people as their

livelihood occupaons. The surplus

electrical energy generated should be

made available to the naonal grid.

Similarly solar energy should be used

for cooking food and for heang water.

At present all these are oponal; the

proposal of 'Agriculture World' is that

it should be made mandatory through

policy decision in every country.

12th Law: Facilies for collecon,

storage and use of rain water should

be part of the construcon of every

roof tops in the residenal,

instuonal and industrial complexes.

Water stored in the absence of

light or air or both will remain potable

for hundreds of years or forever. In

many countries people are sll

doubng about the potability of such

stored water. All the water sources

under the surface of the earth are

examples water stored thousands and

millions of years. Water should be

stored in the absence of sunlight even

if it has contact with air. Even in the

scanty rainfall areas of Rajasthan rain

water storage and use of the same is

an ancient pracce. What is needed,

such pracces should be improved and

promoted among the people. Besides,

judicious use of water should be made

mandatory.

13th Law: Healthy populaon is

an essenal component of a healthy

environment. Healthy nutrion and

healthy environment are the two

necessary condions for a healthy

populaon. Unhealthy and

irraonally behaving populaon is a

dead weight on the ecosystem.

a. It is an established fact that

most of the sicknesses and low body

resistance to various diseases is due

to under or malnourishment or

undernourishment.

It is an irony that both the rich

and poor are landing up in the same

hospital, the former for overeang and

the laer for undernourishment. The

problem starts at the me of

concepon and connues ll to the

death of an individual. Both among the

rich and poor regular and sucient

amount of vegetable consumpon is

rare. The cereals and millets provide

the people with energy while the

pulses, meat, sh etc. give protein. But

vegetables and fruits provide the

vitamins and minerals which are

equally important to energy and

protein. All the amino acids and micro

nutrients are very much essenal for

the brain development and mental

capacity building. There are 14

vitamins and 24 minerals that are

required for the human body. They are

available mostly in vegetables and

fruits only. As a thumb rule we can say

that one should consume at least one

handful each of cooked leafy

vegetable, root vegetable and

vegetables other than leafy and root

types. In addion, everyone should

consume one handful each of pieced

fruits and salad. For the proper

nutrion, one should consume all the

locally available vegetable and fruits

and not eat only according to his/her

likes and dislikes.

14th Law: Excessive

commercializaon of food and sex

degrades and degenerate humanity

and goes totally against a healthy and

vibrant populaon. Commercialized

food known as junk food degenerates

the physical and mental health of the

people while commercializaon of

sex and womanhood degenerates

social and moral life of the people.

A raonal human approach to

food and sex is necessary for ensuring

a healthy populaon which is a pre

requisite for maintaining a well

balanced ecosystem. An emoonally



charged hedonisc approach will only

degenerate the human mind and a

populaon with degenerated mind is

a dead weight on the ecosystem.

God set man as the master and ruler

of the earth and everything in it. If

the master and ruler himself is sick

and disoriented how can a healthy

ecosystem be created and

maintained?

Food and sex are interrelated in

such a way that life is impossible

without either of them. Food is for

preservaon of life while sex is for

preservaon of humanity. Both are so

sacred in human life that engaging in

one or the other is a holy act.

Promiscuous behavior in any of these

basic human needs is highly harmful

to humanity and consequently to

environment. This is a more serious

issue than human morality.

15th Law: In terms of populaon

naons should maintain the carrying

capacity of the naturally available

culvable or producve land area or

the renewable income generang

resources.

Carrying capacity per unit

area of land was originally dened as

the average number of cale heads

that can be maintained on a given

piece of grazing land. The same

principle should be applied in the case

of human beings in the case food and

other consumable items. The available

land area in the nature cannot support

endless number of people on the

earth. This problem is becoming

crucial at a me when the populaon

in certain countries is increasing

beyond its capacity to produce enough

food for them. We also have to

recognize that a given land area has

limitaons in producing any food item.

Overpopulaon is a dead weight on

the environment.

16th Law: Human life has two

main aspects: 1) Existence 2)

Development. Of these Existence is

prior to development. In human life

existence without development is

meaningless; but development

without existence is impossible.

Existence implies both

physical and mental; Development

also consists in physical as well as

mental. World agriculture aims to

promote beer and fuller human life

both in existence and development.

Arcles in World Agriculture aim to

promote fuller Existence and

Development for all humans in a

healthy and congenial environment.

th

17 Law: Both human existence

and development have to be taken

care together.

Human life has two main aspects:

1) Existence 2) Development. of

these, Existence is prior to

development. In human life, Existence

without Development is meaningless;

but Development without Existence is

impossible.

Existence implies both physical

and mental; Development also

consists in physical as well as mental.

Every one aims to promote beer and

fuller human life both in existence and

development. Implemenng



development programmes without

ensuring proper existence of each

individual or community is like building

buildings without proper foundaon.

We have educaonal programmes

without solving poverty. How can a

child study with a hungry stomach or

how can he apply himself to higher

educaon, if his mind is not properly

developed due lack of material

requirements like balance food,

adequate clothes and housing? How

many follow a balanced diet? How

many know, what is the minimum

number of clothes one should have to

appear in public without

embarrassment? How many know that

every adult needs a housing of 100

square feet area? When all these three

are fullled only, he/she or his/her

children will be able to study. Again

how many have esmated the real

cost of well balanced food, adequate

clothing, housing and educaon of the

children at least up to graduaon level

in a family of six members?. The Indian

slogan Ro, Kappada, Makkan

(food, clothes and housing) are

necessary for a sustained educaon up

to graduaon. Only then he can think

of geng a producve and protable

enough employment. Only then we

can have a sustainable environment

and development. This sequences

material and nonmaterial

requirements for existence and

development cannot be bypassed by

the developmentalists.

th

18 Law: Humans should lead a

Peaceful Coexistence with nature

and promote Popular Environmental

Agronomic Community Educaon to

Mobilize and to Organize to Develop

Environmental Living Systems (PEACE

MODELS).

Humans on earth are the end

product of the millions of years of

evoluon and are sll evolving though

an individual human may not realize it.

That he is the product of the nature

and is governed by the laws of nature

in his growth and development is a

fact that he has to reckon with. Yet the

humans are the masters of the earth

and everything in it and yet they are

the most vulnerable of all the living

beings on the earth. All the major

components in the nature such as soil,

water, air, light, heat, microbes, plants

and animals are to be used by humans

judiciously so that the future

generaons also will have the same

things in sucient quanty.

In the PEACE MODEL system,

there is a physical and mental aspect

which cannot be separated

existenally though logically we can

make disncons and denions. The

physical aspect consists in adhering

with the above menoned

commandments of the Nature

whether one is involved directly or

indirectly in the Nature. The mental or

spiritual aspect of the PEACE MODEL

is a sense of anity, unity, are though

at his disposal he should not and

cannot use them as he likes. He should

preserve them for the future

generaons. It is also a convicon that

at the ulmate level there is a oneness

and interrelaonship between all the

things in the Nature. This mental

anity is not without physical basis. At

the ulmate elemental level all the

things in this world are made up of the

same maer but dierent in structure,

composion and funcons as we nd

in the microbes, plants, animals and

humans. Everything comes from the

earth including the atmosphere and

everything goes back to the soil or to

the earth. It is amazing how dierent

are each and every microbe, plant,

animal and human on earth and yet

they are composed basically of the

same material.

Beyond the physical we feel an

anity towards plants, animals and

other human which we can clearly

experience. How an animal will

respond to a human and how even a

plant responds to a human being are

facts experimentally proved. How each

and every one of them contribute to

the life of each human being on earth

is an awareness every human should

culvate and cherish. People who live

in PEACE MODEL system will feel an

anity and interrelatedness to the

soil, water, air, heat, light, microbes,

plants, animals and to other humans.

which they walk, a owering plant etc.

They will be part of the web of

ecological web in which every

component in the Nature is inter

related to each other.

Conclusion

These eighteen Laws of Nature are enunciated aer

considering many aspects of human

and environmental existence and

development on earth. Yet they will

generate a lot of heat and dust in the

discussion and debate, as people all

have their own ideas about

environment management. Yet aer

all the heat and dust raised some

consensus will hopefully emerge. It

may be too late for that to happen;

but it is beer to be late than never.

Dr. K. T. Chandy

He is recipient of naonal &

internaonal award for the

outstanding work in above

menoned eld. He is on the

Editorial Board of

Krishi Jagran Media Group.)


charged hedonisc approach will only

degenerate the human mind and a

populaon with degenerated mind is

a dead weight on the ecosystem.

God set man as the master and ruler

of the earth and everything in it. If

the master and ruler himself is sick

and disoriented how can a healthy

ecosystem be created and

maintained?

Food and sex are interrelated in

such a way that life is impossible

without either of them. Food is for

preservaon of life while sex is for

preservaon of humanity. Both are so

sacred in human life that engaging in

one or the other is a holy act.

Promiscuous behavior in any of these

basic human needs is highly harmful

to humanity and consequently to

environment. This is a more serious

issue than human morality.

15th Law: In terms of populaon

naons should maintain the carrying

capacity of the naturally available

culvable or producve land area or

the renewable income generang

resources.

Carrying capacity per unit

area of land was originally dened as

the average number of cale heads

that can be maintained on a given

piece of grazing land. The same

principle should be applied in the case

of human beings in the case food and

other consumable items. The available

land area in the nature cannot support

endless number of people on the

earth. This problem is becoming

crucial at a me when the populaon

in certain countries is increasing

beyond its capacity to produce enough

food for them. We also have to

recognize that a given land area has

limitaons in producing any food item.

Overpopulaon is a dead weight on

the environment.

16th Law: Human life has two

main aspects: 1) Existence 2)

Development. Of these Existence is

prior to development. In human life

existence without development is

meaningless; but development

without existence is impossible.

Existence implies both

physical and mental; Development

also consists in physical as well as

mental. World agriculture aims to

promote beer and fuller human life

both in existence and development.

Arcles in World Agriculture aim to

promote fuller Existence and

Development for all humans in a

healthy and congenial environment.

th

17 Law: Both human existence

and development have to be taken

care together.

Human life has two main aspects:

1) Existence 2) Development. of

these, Existence is prior to

development. In human life, Existence

without Development is meaningless;

but Development without Existence is

impossible.

Existence implies both physical

and mental; Development also

consists in physical as well as mental.

Every one aims to promote beer and

fuller human life both in existence and

development. Implemenng



development programmes without

ensuring proper existence of each

individual or community is like building

buildings without proper foundaon.

We have educaonal programmes

without solving poverty. How can a

child study with a hungry stomach or

how can he apply himself to higher

educaon, if his mind is not properly

developed due lack of material

requirements like balance food,

adequate clothes and housing? How

many follow a balanced diet? How

many know, what is the minimum

number of clothes one should have to

appear in public without

embarrassment? How many know that

every adult needs a housing of 100

square feet area? When all these three

are fullled only, he/she or his/her

children will be able to study. Again

how many have esmated the real

cost of well balanced food, adequate

clothing, housing and educaon of the

children at least up to graduaon level

in a family of six members?. The Indian

slogan Ro, Kappada, Makkan

(food, clothes and housing) are

necessary for a sustained educaon up

to graduaon. Only then he can think

of geng a producve and protable

enough employment. Only then we

can have a sustainable environment

and development. This sequences

material and nonmaterial

requirements for existence and

development cannot be bypassed by

the developmentalists.

th

18 Law: Humans should lead a

Peaceful Coexistence with nature

and promote Popular Environmental

Agronomic Community Educaon to

Mobilize and to Organize to Develop

Environmental Living Systems (PEACE

MODELS).

Humans on earth are the end

product of the millions of years of

evoluon and are sll evolving though

an individual human may not realize it.

That he is the product of the nature

and is governed by the laws of nature

in his growth and development is a

fact that he has to reckon with. Yet the

humans are the masters of the earth

and everything in it and yet they are

the most vulnerable of all the living

beings on the earth. All the major

components in the nature such as soil,

water, air, light, heat, microbes, plants

and animals are to be used by humans

judiciously so that the future

generaons also will have the same

things in sucient quanty.

In the PEACE MODEL system,

there is a physical and mental aspect

which cannot be separated

existenally though logically we can

make disncons and denions. The

physical aspect consists in adhering

with the above menoned

commandments of the Nature

whether one is involved directly or

indirectly in the Nature. The mental or

spiritual aspect of the PEACE MODEL

is a sense of anity, unity, are though

at his disposal he should not and

cannot use them as he likes. He should

preserve them for the future

generaons. It is also a convicon that

at the ulmate level there is a oneness

and interrelaonship between all the

things in the Nature. This mental

anity is not without physical basis. At

the ulmate elemental level all the

things in this world are made up of the

same maer but dierent in structure,

composion and funcons as we nd

in the microbes, plants, animals and

humans. Everything comes from the

earth including the atmosphere and

everything goes back to the soil or to

the earth. It is amazing how dierent

are each and every microbe, plant,

animal and human on earth and yet

they are composed basically of the

same material.

Beyond the physical we feel an

anity towards plants, animals and

other human which we can clearly

experience. How an animal will

respond to a human and how even a

plant responds to a human being are

facts experimentally proved. How each

and every one of them contribute to

the life of each human being on earth

is an awareness every human should

culvate and cherish. People who live

in PEACE MODEL system will feel an

anity and interrelatedness to the

soil, water, air, heat, light, microbes,

plants, animals and to other humans.

which they walk, a owering plant etc.

They will be part of the web of

ecological web in which every

component in the Nature is inter

related to each other.

Conclusion

These eighteen Laws of Nature are enunciated aer

considering many aspects of human

and environmental existence and

development on earth. Yet they will

generate a lot of heat and dust in the

discussion and debate, as people all

have their own ideas about

environment management. Yet aer

all the heat and dust raised some

consensus will hopefully emerge. It

may be too late for that to happen;

but it is beer to be late than never.

Dr. K. T. Chandy

He is recipient of naonal &

internaonal award for the

outstanding work in above

menoned eld. He is on the

Editorial Board of

Krishi Jagran Media Group.)

Because your farming is your life

Just call and see...

is toll free !

UPL Adarsh Kishan Centre at your service

In formally organised seminars of Indian Associaons and Confederaons, corporate barons

pronounce that they need non

interference by establishment for

stability of their business. But at the

same me they woo the chief guests

who are generally either Chief

Ministers or Ministers or Secretaries to

the GOI to process policy

formulaons those benet them in

short term but diminish domesc and

global compeon. Doing business in

monopoly is the easiest way out. State

intervenon should be the rarest of

the rare cases but not a rule of

generalised collecve lobbying as is

being adopted for the last 67 years in

collusion between the authories and

the businesses. Let it be understood

that whenever Governments all over

the word indulge in so called reforms,

they are always skewed.

Let us set aside the case of PDS

(Public Distribuon System) and MSP

(Minimum Support Price) regime for

the me being where macro policy

correcon is required for the decisions

taken and implemented for the last 50

years.

Naonal Food Security Act (NFSA)

is again in a state of hibernaon and

needs another dose of state sponsored

reform, which Modi Government

appears to have iniated silently. Yet,

there are umpteen maers where the

producers and industry invite

government to intervene.

Sugar

At the insistence of the industry,

sugar trade was deregulated by UPA

Government in April 2013. But then

half baked policy on sugar cane

pricing has created more confusion

than reform. Why xing sugarcane

price on pan India basis was le out?

The woes of farmers' arrears are now

spoken about more than before.

Raw sugar exportcentric

corporates want WTO noncompliant

subsidy of about $53 pmt which has

been a switch on and o aair.

Introspecvely industry would have

felt that sugar trade in controlled

regime was funconing beer than in

decontrolled mechanism.

Is sugar and allied business really

a loss making proposion? If so, the

producon should have declined by

30%40%. But sugar producon seems

to increase from 24 million tons (mts)

to 26 million mts and carry in stocks

are unchanged to 7.5 million tons

while consumpon is 22 million tons

and exports of 1.8 mts. Has the

recovery from sugar cane gone up or

the byproducts are supporng the

protability? Will the proposed 70:30

formula of pricing sugarcane will be

transparent and fair for all?

Surprisingly Banks are sll supporng

the hugely loss making industry??

Why?? Can banks recover recurring

losses by fresh funding?? Why farmers

are not demonstrang on streets, if

there is evidence of huge cane arrears.

There are many unanswered

quesons.

Crude oil prices are down by 50%

and further fall is not ruled out. More

sugar will be produced by Brazil than

ethanol, thereby pushing NY sugar

even below 14c/lb. Pressures to

import will mount and exports will be

minimal. How the emerging challenge

will be embraced? Is hike in import

duty the only way out? Or sugarcane

price adjustments, higher recoveries

or beer technology are the answer?

Sugar industry in fact again

desires Government intervenon

despite their vocalism that the

administraon should let them

funcon independently. The generally

accepted noon is that when an

industry is making protsit perhaps

believes that it is their ingenuity while

establishment has nothing to do with

it. At the me when markets are non

supporve, it blames the Government

for the mess up and seeks bail

out/incenves in the name of farmers

Unshackle the Agro-Business from short term quick xes

Unshackle the

Agro-Business from short term

quick xes

Unshackle the


quick xes

Because your farming is your life

Just call and see...

is toll free !

UPL Adarsh Kishan Centre at your service

In formally organised seminars of Indian Associaons and Confederaons, corporate barons

pronounce that they need non

interference by establishment for

stability of their business. But at the

same me they woo the chief guests

who are generally either Chief

Ministers or Ministers or Secretaries to

the GOI to process policy

formulaons those benet them in

short term but diminish domesc and

global compeon. Doing business in

monopoly is the easiest way out. State

intervenon should be the rarest of

the rare cases but not a rule of

generalised collecve lobbying as is

being adopted for the last 67 years in

collusion between the authories and

the businesses. Let it be understood

that whenever Governments all over

the word indulge in so called reforms,

they are always skewed.

Let us set aside the case of PDS

(Public Distribuon System) and MSP

(Minimum Support Price) regime for

the me being where macro policy

correcon is required for the decisions

taken and implemented for the last 50

years.

Naonal Food Security Act (NFSA)

is again in a state of hibernaon and

needs another dose of state sponsored

reform, which Modi Government

appears to have iniated silently. Yet,

there are umpteen maers where the

producers and industry invite

government to intervene.

Sugar

At the insistence of the industry,

sugar trade was deregulated by UPA

Government in April 2013. But then

half baked policy on sugar cane

pricing has created more confusion

than reform. Why xing sugarcane

price on pan India basis was le out?

The woes of farmers' arrears are now

spoken about more than before.

Raw sugar exportcentric

corporates want WTO noncompliant

subsidy of about $53 pmt which has

been a switch on and o aair.

Introspecvely industry would have

felt that sugar trade in controlled

regime was funconing beer than in

decontrolled mechanism.

Is sugar and allied business really

a loss making proposion? If so, the

producon should have declined by

30%40%. But sugar producon seems

to increase from 24 million tons (mts)

to 26 million mts and carry in stocks

are unchanged to 7.5 million tons

while consumpon is 22 million tons

and exports of 1.8 mts. Has the

recovery from sugar cane gone up or

the byproducts are supporng the

protability? Will the proposed 70:30

formula of pricing sugarcane will be

transparent and fair for all?

Surprisingly Banks are sll supporng

the hugely loss making industry??

Why?? Can banks recover recurring

losses by fresh funding?? Why farmers

are not demonstrang on streets, if

there is evidence of huge cane arrears.

There are many unanswered

quesons.

Crude oil prices are down by 50%

and further fall is not ruled out. More

sugar will be produced by Brazil than

ethanol, thereby pushing NY sugar

even below 14c/lb. Pressures to

import will mount and exports will be

minimal. How the emerging challenge

will be embraced? Is hike in import

duty the only way out? Or sugarcane

price adjustments, higher recoveries

or beer technology are the answer?

Sugar industry in fact again

desires Government intervenon

despite their vocalism that the

administraon should let them

funcon independently. The generally

accepted noon is that when an

industry is making protsit perhaps

believes that it is their ingenuity while

establishment has nothing to do with

it. At the me when markets are non

supporve, it blames the Government

for the mess up and seeks bail

out/incenves in the name of farmers


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or workers. How can prots be private

and losses public!!

Rice

Rice producon is also recognised

as an industry because it is milled out

of the paddy. Out of about 105 mts of

Rice milled annually, 95 mts is Non

Basma Rice (NBR) where

Government acquision is 30 mts,

private market is 60 mts while balance

10 mts is Basma rice. Government

determines the MSP of NBR paddy

and consequently there is some vague

correlaon of NBR rice cost with

market values.

By and large rice trade has been

operang freely except for the period

200711 when Commerce Ministry

noed, rst restricons and then

prohibion, in export of NBRnot

because the rice was in short supply or

due to domesc inaon but it acted

under misconceived noon that wheat

import and producon may not suce.

It was a total mess up. Large ocial

and domesc NBR stocks were built

up. In addion to genuine Basma

rice export, signicant tonnage of NBR

was also exported as Basma rice by

over invoicing, whose exact volume

will always remain unknown. The

ocial records merely reected 11.5

million tons of Basma Rice. This

encouraged parallel trade in hard

currency too.

During those four years,

ocialdom failed to realize the

suppressed potenal of Indian NBR

export which required no government

assistance or intervenon. Eecve

September 2011, when export of NBR

was repermied, India aained status

of world largest rice exporter for 2012

1314 with annual shipments of 1011

million tons. This sterling success

isalso aributed to Pusa hybrid

variees 1121 in Basma segment.

In NBR segment, PR11,1001,

IR64, IR32, Sona Masoori, Ponna,

Parboiled and 100% broken rice

variees have been widely accepted

abroad. All this is possible due to

beer technologies applied by the

agricultural research instuons and

producon hovers at 1112 million

tons in the best years. GM soy yields

about 3mt/ha. Applicaon of the latest

technology is the only viable strategy

where we can triple our output and

cut down cost of oil producon. If GM

crops are environmentally safe for

US/Brazil/Argenna and if China is

abundantly using them, why our

policymakers cannot accelerate the

process of their introducon?

But both the Government and

industry do not appear to be keen in

enhanced producvity of soybean

through GM cropping; neither import

of GM beans have been asked for by

the champions of the industry from

the policymakers. Both are content in

short term soluons and not high

producvity at low cost.

The above three issues exemplify

the following two major industries

sugar and edible oil, who keep on

pleading with Government virtually

every year to intervene will always

remain on crutches for their survival.

Both trade and the Government either

due to polical populism or for the

short term reliefs ignore the widest

canvas of long term reform. These

sectors need a wider vision for

aggressive development rather than

quick x measures.

Look at rice industry of similar

linkages with farmers. They have

grown with deep penetraon both in

domesc and internaonal markets,

even where there are no futures to

hedge.

Tejinder Narang

Indian rice millers for sorng and

sortexing ensuring uniformity in

looks, quality and consumer

packaging. The only discreon that

Indian rice trade enjoys is to blend

various variees with the consent of

the buyers with which they can adjust

their protability.

Government has stayed away in

all aspects of rice trade except for the

PDS procurement. The freedom to buy

and sell and export by the private

players is the hall mark of success of

the rice trade. Neither the rice

industry has a strong lobby to

inuence Government policies which

is a blessing in disguise.

Edible oil

Solvent Extractors Associaon

(SEA) and Soybean Oil Processor

Associaons (SOPA) have lobbied with

Government to raise custom duty on

imported crude and rened oil to

oset steep fall in world palm oil and

soy oil prices. Recently (24.12.2014)

the Government acquiesced to their

demand by hiking the duty by

addional 5%. Surely this will benet

the industry more than the farmers.

But it will be pro inaon and hit the

consumer.

World soy prices are exible (can

withstand high volality) because of

high yields aained through hybrid

and GMO technologies in USA and

South America to which India largely

remains insulated. For example India

has a soybean crushing capacity of

80000 mt/ day and that requires 24

million tons soybeans annually (300

working days) while our current

ECONOMIC & POLITICAL

SIGNIFICANCE OF

INDIAN SEED INDUSTRYARE WE READY TO PLAY THE BIGGER GAME?

Economic & Political Signicance of Indian Seed Industry


SIGNIFICANCE OF


There can be no argument about the crucial importance of food security for any society and naon.

Food is a very strategic issue since

ages. In changing geopolical

condions in the world control of food

and fuel supplies is of strategic and

polical signicance.

Why food security is crucial for

naonal economic & foreign policy?

High voltage and aggressive

negoaons and debates on

Agreement on Agriculture at WTO

meengs are clear examples that food

security and bioeconomy are non

negoable because no country

weather small or big world like to

compromise on food security.

Any country without food security

cannot have independent economic

and foreign policy. It is well known fact

that any country who is oering food

and fuel to other country to stabilize

the economy for its existence will try

to inuence the policies of the

receiving country in their favor.

Nothing is free in today's world.

Strategically, food is also weapon. The

collapse of USSR and much economy

in the past was due to shortage of

food. Civil wars and social unrest were

due to excessive food inaon and

shortage of food. There is conscious

aempt by major global polical

power to capture or inuence the food

security of other naons to enhance

their polical and strategic reach.

Tools used to inuence food security

around the world:

In order to control or inuence

the food security of other country,

there are many ways by which this can

be done. The most powerful and

sensive too is by controlling the

factors of producon and also

inuencing their viability or

availability.

The major factors of producon in

agriculture are:

1. Soil

2. Seeds

3. Water

4. Agrochemicals

5. Climate

6. Labor

7. Equipment and machines

8. Fuel

Out of these major factors of

product, the few can be controlled by

trade laws and some other can be

inuenced by social and

environmental laws.

Naonal Food Security and Trade

Laws:

Inputs like seeds, agrochemicals,

equipment and fuel are tradable

products. There is an aempt to

control or inuence the availability,

quality and cost of these inputs in one

way or the other.

Tari and nontari measures are

used to inuence the supply and cost

of these products in the world market.

There are various agreements

under WTO which are used to

inuence these aspects in domesc

policies of various countries. Some of

the important agreements are:

1. Agreement of Agriculture

2. Agreement on Trade related

Intellectual property rights

3. Agreement on Technical Barriers

to Trade

4. Agreement on Sanitary and Phyto

sanitary Measures

5. Agreement on Trade facilitaon


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or workers. How can prots be private

and losses public!!

Rice

Rice producon is also recognised

as an industry because it is milled out

of the paddy. Out of about 105 mts of

Rice milled annually, 95 mts is Non

Basma Rice (NBR) where

Government acquision is 30 mts,

private market is 60 mts while balance

10 mts is Basma rice. Government

determines the MSP of NBR paddy

and consequently there is some vague

correlaon of NBR rice cost with

market values.

By and large rice trade has been

operang freely except for the period

200711 when Commerce Ministry

noed, rst restricons and then

prohibion, in export of NBRnot

because the rice was in short supply or

due to domesc inaon but it acted

under misconceived noon that wheat

import and producon may not suce.

It was a total mess up. Large ocial

and domesc NBR stocks were built

up. In addion to genuine Basma

rice export, signicant tonnage of NBR

was also exported as Basma rice by

over invoicing, whose exact volume

will always remain unknown. The

ocial records merely reected 11.5

million tons of Basma Rice. This

encouraged parallel trade in hard

currency too.

During those four years,

ocialdom failed to realize the

suppressed potenal of Indian NBR

export which required no government

assistance or intervenon. Eecve

September 2011, when export of NBR

was repermied, India aained status

of world largest rice exporter for 2012

1314 with annual shipments of 1011

million tons. This sterling success

isalso aributed to Pusa hybrid

variees 1121 in Basma segment.

In NBR segment, PR11,1001,

IR64, IR32, Sona Masoori, Ponna,

Parboiled and 100% broken rice

variees have been widely accepted

abroad. All this is possible due to

beer technologies applied by the

agricultural research instuons and

producon hovers at 1112 million

tons in the best years. GM soy yields

about 3mt/ha. Applicaon of the latest

technology is the only viable strategy

where we can triple our output and

cut down cost of oil producon. If GM

crops are environmentally safe for

US/Brazil/Argenna and if China is

abundantly using them, why our

policymakers cannot accelerate the

process of their introducon?

But both the Government and

industry do not appear to be keen in

enhanced producvity of soybean

through GM cropping; neither import

of GM beans have been asked for by

the champions of the industry from

the policymakers. Both are content in

short term soluons and not high

producvity at low cost.

The above three issues exemplify

the following two major industries

sugar and edible oil, who keep on

pleading with Government virtually

every year to intervene will always

remain on crutches for their survival.

Both trade and the Government either

due to polical populism or for the

short term reliefs ignore the widest

canvas of long term reform. These

sectors need a wider vision for

aggressive development rather than

quick x measures.

Look at rice industry of similar

linkages with farmers. They have

grown with deep penetraon both in

domesc and internaonal markets,

even where there are no futures to

hedge.

Tejinder Narang

Indian rice millers for sorng and

sortexing ensuring uniformity in

looks, quality and consumer

packaging. The only discreon that

Indian rice trade enjoys is to blend

various variees with the consent of

the buyers with which they can adjust

their protability.

Government has stayed away in

all aspects of rice trade except for the

PDS procurement. The freedom to buy

and sell and export by the private

players is the hall mark of success of

the rice trade. Neither the rice

industry has a strong lobby to

inuence Government policies which

is a blessing in disguise.

Edible oil

Solvent Extractors Associaon

(SEA) and Soybean Oil Processor

Associaons (SOPA) have lobbied with

Government to raise custom duty on

imported crude and rened oil to

oset steep fall in world palm oil and

soy oil prices. Recently (24.12.2014)

the Government acquiesced to their

demand by hiking the duty by

addional 5%. Surely this will benet

the industry more than the farmers.

But it will be pro inaon and hit the

consumer.

World soy prices are exible (can

withstand high volality) because of

high yields aained through hybrid

and GMO technologies in USA and

South America to which India largely

remains insulated. For example India

has a soybean crushing capacity of

80000 mt/ day and that requires 24

million tons soybeans annually (300

working days) while our current


SIGNIFICANCE OF


Economic & Political Signicance of Indian Seed Industry


SIGNIFICANCE OF


There can be no argument about the crucial importance of food security for any society and naon.

Food is a very strategic issue since

ages. In changing geopolical

condions in the world control of food

and fuel supplies is of strategic and

polical signicance.

Why food security is crucial for

naonal economic & foreign policy?

High voltage and aggressive

negoaons and debates on

Agreement on Agriculture at WTO

meengs are clear examples that food

security and bioeconomy are non

negoable because no country

weather small or big world like to

compromise on food security.

Any country without food security

cannot have independent economic

and foreign policy. It is well known fact

that any co

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