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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
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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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
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
SUBSCRIPTIONYear Rs. US$
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2 1300 200
3 1800 300
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JAN 2015 | AGRICULTURE WORLD | Issue-1 04
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
LAWS OF NATURE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
AND AGRICULTURE
www.krishijagran.com
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
JAN 2015 | AGRICULTURE WORLD | Issue-1 05
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
9 1:89 12.511.1 6.25.0 Fruit trees, plantaon crops, fuel wood and mber trees, any perennial crop
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
16 1:3540 2.852.5 1.21.1 Broad terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual, annual & biannual crops,
o
17 1:4045 2.52.22 1.1.9 Wide terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual & biannual crops,
o
18 1:4550 2.222.0 0.990.9 Wide terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual & biannual crops,
o
19. 1:50100 21.0 0.90.45 Wide terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual & biannual crops,
o
20 1:50100 01 100
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JAN 2015 | AGRICULTURE WORLD | Issue-1 04
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
LAWS OF NATURE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
AND AGRICULTURE
www.krishijagran.com
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
JAN 2015 | AGRICULTURE WORLD | Issue-1 05
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
9 1:89 12.511.1 6.25.0 Fruit trees, plantaon crops, fuel wood and mber trees, any perennial crop
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
16 1:3540 2.852.5 1.21.1 Broad terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual, annual & biannual crops,
o
17 1:4045 2.52.22 1.1.9 Wide terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual & biannual crops,
o
18 1:4550 2.222.0 0.990.9 Wide terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual & biannual crops,
o
19. 1:50100 21.0 0.90.45 Wide terraced Irrigated crops, seasonal, annual & biannual crops,
o
20 1:50100 01 100
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JAN 2015 | AGRICULTURE WORLD | Issue-1 06
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Laws of Nature for Sustainable Environment and Agriculture
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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.)
www.krishijagran.com
-
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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
Laws of Nature for Sustainable Environment and Agriculture
JAN 2015 | AGRICULTURE WORLD | Issue-1 09
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.)
www.krishijagran.com
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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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quick xes
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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
Agro-Business from short term
quick xes
JAN 2015 | AGRICULTURE WORLD | Issue-1 11
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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
ECONOMIC & POLITICAL
SIGNIFICANCE OF
INDIAN SEED INDUSTRYARE WE READY TO PLAY THE BIGGER GAME?
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
Unshackle the Agro-Business from short term quick xes
JAN 2015 | AGRICULTURE WORLD | Issue-1 12 JAN 2015 | AGRICULTURE WORLD | Issue-1 13
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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
ECONOMIC & POLITICAL
SIGNIFICANCE OF
INDIAN SEED INDUSTRYARE WE READY TO PLAY THE BIGGER GAME?
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