tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61436400115617042242024-03-12T19:47:03.524-04:00Sopan StepThe monthly Development Magazine in English, Hindi and Oriya for rural resurgence, addressing the issues of poverty, hunger, malnutrition, food, tribal upliftment, urban poor, women, health, education and nutrition.SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.comBlogger303125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-5545138996549429312016-08-20T06:10:00.004-04:002016-08-20T06:10:54.947-04:00Smart village mission not the option for rural development<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <i><b> G Sreedathan </b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Kerala-born Jinnet Mathew had been running a
successful business in rubber products in Bengaluru for more than two decades.
But when competition increased, he started feeling the pinch. Expenses started
mounting and profits were dwindling. He decided to sell off his properties in
the city and settle in a remote village in Kerala. With the proceeds he managed
to purchase a reasonably large parcel of land in a village and started
cultivating rubber and fruit and vegetables. It was a tough decision for the businessman
to transplant himself and family to a village. But what gave him confidence was
his passion for agriculture and love for rural life and his innovative ideas
and expertise in marketing. Unfortunately, nothing of these came to his
rescue. After ten years of his rural experiment, he regrets his decision.
He sold a portion of his land to pay off loans and is exploring possibilities
of shifting to a city for the education of his children. “Agriculture is the
only worthwhile option for a person moving to a rural area and if it is not
profitable what can one do? Farming can become sustainable only with the
government support,” he insists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">In the Indian context,
reverse migration – migration from cities to villages – is very rare. In almost
all cases, of which I have the first-hand knowledge, those who migrated to
villages returned to urban settings after a brief rural sojourn. Many complain
that it takes several weeks for a simple courier consignment to reach the
destination in a rural area. There is not even a semblance of health care
facilities in many villages. The romantic ideas about villages will be
shattered the moment you step into a village, many say. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Our planners,
decision-makers and media have a clear urban bias. In most cases, villages find
mention in our mainstream media for all wrong reasons. An estimate shows
the mainstream media gives less than 5% of its space for rural issues. Rural
areas find mention in reports only when there is a macabre crime or mishap or
some undesirable events in those places. It’s an irony that all
governments since <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Independence</st1:place></st1:city>
have invariably proclaimed that their main mission was to improve the condition
of the farmers and rural people. Still the rural sector continues to present a
picture of squalor and impoverishment. This is not to deny the great
strides <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has made in the field of agriculture. The Green Revolution has made us
self-sufficient on the food front. Although many innovations have been
introduced, the pace of improvement and technological intervention in
agriculture has been very slow. Besides decline in land holding per farmer and
other factors have made agriculture a loss-making proposition in most parts of
the country. This has cast a shadow on the rural economy and overall standard
of life of the rural people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">According to the
National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data, over two-thirds of households in
rural <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
still depend on firewood for cooking. In contrast, a similar proportion of
households use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking in urban areas. A
rapid survey on the Swachchata Status conducted by NSSO during May-June 2015
shows that in rural areas, the percentage of persons going for open defecation
was 52.1 per cent. The survey was conducted in 3,788 villages and 2,907 urban blocks.
The Census 2011 shows rural literacy rate is below 70 per cent while in urban <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> it is
84.11 per cent. The 70th round of the NSSO Survey on Household Assets and
Liabilities has revealed that the average value of the assets per household in
rural areas was found to be Rs 10.07 lakh while the corresponding value in
urban areas was Rs 22.85 lakh. The difference in the average asset holding of
the top and bottom 10 per cent was as high 50,000 times in urban areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Our cities are not free
from problems either. About 31 per cent of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s current population lives in
cities. By 2030, the population in urban areas is expected to touch 40% of <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>'s population and contribute 75% of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s GDP by
2030. Keeping this in mind, the Narendra Modi government launched the Smart
Cities mission to improve the physical, institutional, social and economic
infrastructure. These measures, if implemented in right earnest, would improve
the quality of life of people and promote growth. There is no doubt on that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Does that mean that a
similar smart village mission is the way forward for Indian villages? Not at
all. Huge investments and infrastructure projects proposed in the Industrial
Policy of 1991 that heralded economic liberalisation in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> had been
the precursor to the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZs). We have
witnessed how private entrepreneurs and big businesses grabbed agricultural
lands from poor farmers and pushed them into the margins of urban centres as
migrants. The governments either facilitated or remained mute spectators
to this naked land grab. This policy triggered huge unrest in many areas. The
Central government could have doused the fire by making farmers also
stakeholders in those SEZ projects. But it did not do. Therefore, what we need is
not huge infrastructure investments in rural and backward areas that will
result in uprooting of the farmer and divest him of his meagre income.
What the farmer needs is better access to credit, markets and technology that
will enhance his income and remove hardships. The government should also
create job opportunities in other sectors so that under-utilized workforce in
the farm sector could be gainfully employed and rural households could enhance
income. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Having said that, some
elements of the smart cities project such as digital and information
technologies can be adopted for effective delivery of services and establishing
market linkages for farmers. I would conclude this by narrating an
experience of Jinnet Mathew who got Rs 3,000 just by selling just 2 kg of an
indigenous banana variety to a Japanese customer through an online
platform. In the local market, he could have got only Rs 40 for the same!</span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-91977615148418573882016-07-13T04:35:00.003-04:002016-07-13T04:35:30.335-04:00Cyber bullying: You are just one click away<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US"> </span><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">RonganaNath</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Today’s
world is fast-paced and if you are not catching up with it, then you are a
total outcast. So how do you catch up? Apart from the latest trends, technology
is another aspect to be accepted among the cliques of the people around. With
the growth of the technology, we have seen wonderful results as well as a
rampant rise of unwanted or unethical things called cyber bullying and
trafficking. Have you ever been insulted, harassed, been called names or teased
online? Then, it is palpable that you are one among the various victims of
cyber bullying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Basically,
at some point of time we all have been a part of it, either as the victim, as
the bully or as a mere spectator mutely enjoying the show and chuckling while
disagreeing to this kind of online spats. People with fair knowledge about this
topic, often brag about how the tweens and teens are unaware about the harms of
what they do online but, no, in India there has never been any narrative about
cyber bullying and trafficking and hence men, women and children alike are
active participants and victims of this. It is rather a shocking fact that
despite India having less internet reach, it recently ranked third in the
global cyber bullying list with Indian teens leaving their American and
Australian counterparts behind with about 52% of them having experiences of
cyber bullying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“The teens
I met here are very energetic to work for the cause of cyber bullying but when
I asked them if they have ever been a victim, no body raised their hands to
talk about it. It cannot happen. They are too apprehensive to talk about their
own experience”, says Parry Aftab, Head of WiredSafety.inc which works on cyber
security and cyber bullying, in her recent trip to India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Studies
have also found that a whopping 80% are aware of the outcome but due to sheer
alacrity to post things online and no one to dissuade, especially the Indian
parents, who no way care what their children are doing online has induced to
serious perils. Indian parents are seemingly ecstatic if their child turns out
to be an expert in social media with them blowing the trumpet about how swiftly
their ward operates Facebook, Twitter, Instagram et cetera, and not even
thinking that their child can be in Tinder and Snapchat too which are racy in
nature and most importantly how their child is being treated online. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">India saw a
massive anonymous spit-spat with the Facebook confession pages which brought
out a bully from every teenager when they started hurling abuses to someone
they don’t like with their identity hidden, making it hard to track that who
confessed the particular lines. It gave an ample rise to cyber bullying with
many institutions bringing down the pages but then again it is never the
children or the parents who came forward with the complaints. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then again
one might ask how complaining can teach the accused a lesson when there is
currently no law dealing with cyber security in India. The Cyber Crime Cells of
various states merely update information about what to and what not to do
online to avoid being a victim of cyber bullying but seldom anyone visit these
websites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When
someone complains to the police about cyber harassment, the police bring the
crime under other existing crime of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Recently,
Jassi, a young architect from New Delhi saw a guy in her Facebook profile
misusing her pictures and using nasty languages when she confronted him. This
went on till Jassi reported the case to the Delhi Police and they nabbed the
culprit quickly and made him confess to Jassi in front of them that he will
never repeat this kind of nuisance. But after a gap of few months, he started
doing the same thing with Jassi fearlessly by staying in another state. This
actually shows the loopholes which is giving the bullies a fair streak of
courage to carry on with this kind of audacity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But the
question that arises is that why people are so much into making their life
public even after knowing the consequences of the act? The answer is quite
simple, daft and was mentioned in the beginning part only. The acceptance and
the so-called likes from people whom most of us even don’t know properly. It
means if one child clicks a steaming pout and posts it on the social media, you
will automatically be tagged unsocial or boring if you are not following suit.
And why not, when the parents find it all cool and okay even after knowing how
photos can be easily accessed and morphed? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
practice of cyber bullying in India will prevail if there is no communication
on this and the first should start with the parents itself, who are the sole
reason for their child’s online life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-74980019581451451422016-05-19T08:11:00.000-04:002016-05-19T08:11:09.018-04:00UPSC results: The story of aspirational India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 24.0pt;"> G Sreedathan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 24.0pt;">This year’s Union Public Service Commission Civil Services
examination results were unique in many respects. It’s the first time
that a Dalit girl topped the exam. That too in her first attempt. The second
rank holder is from <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jammu and Kashmir</st1:place></st1:state>.
Among winners there are many who have come from extremely poor and harsh
surroundings. The results in a way present a real picture of aspirational <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 24.0pt;">Twenty-two-year-old Tina Dabi, the topper, has created history.
Tina has opted for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), with Haryana as her
cadre preference. “I opted for Haryana because it presents such an interesting
example, where you have a lot of economic progress but when it comes to social
indicators you are lagging behind, and that is a very big paradox.” She
wants to empower women. Although Tina was born in <st1:city w:st="on">Bhopal</st1:city>,
she completed her schooling and higher studies in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Delhi</st1:place></st1:city>’s Convent of Jesus and Mary. Both her
parents are engineers. Though she is a Dalit, she belongs to a middle class
family. Yet it’s very important as BJP MP succinctly stated. Raj tweeted,
“Napoleon said that without opportunity ability can’t be cultivated. Dalit girl
topped IAS & this could not have been possible 40-50 yrs back.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 24.0pt;">The second position was secured by Athar Aamir Ul Shafi Khan
from <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jammu and Kashmir</st1:place></st1:state>,
and the third position by Jasmeet Singh Sandhu, a Delhi Sikh. Khan’s victory is
significant not only because he hails from <st1:place w:st="on">Kashmir</st1:place>
but he is the only Muslim whose name figures among the top 100 ranks. Out of
1,078 successful candidates, only 34 are Muslims. It’s the second time that
candidates from J&K clearing the UPSC in flying colours. In 2010, Dr. Shah
Faisal of <st1:place w:st="on">Kashmir</st1:place> came first at the national
level, sending a strong message for peace in the Valley. Besides Khan, six
other Valley aspirants have also cracked the examination. This is a remarkable
feat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 24.0pt;">Another Muslim boy who secured a place in the rank list is Ansar
Shaikh, son of an auto-rickshaw driver. He is the son of his father’s
second wife and according to him has seen poverty and domestic violence from
close quarters. His mother works in fields and the family lives in a rented
home at Shelgaon in Jalna - a dictrict place in <st1:place w:st="on">Maharashtra</st1:place>'s
Marathwada region. His father used to beat his mother and his two sisters were
married off at the age of 14 and 15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 24.0pt;">Another inspiring story is that of 26-year-old Pranjal Patil, a
visually challenged aspirant, who cleared the exam at one go. Pranjal was
blinded at the age of six when her classmate poked a pencil in one of her eyes.
Eventually, her other eye was also damaged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 24.0pt;">There are a few more aspirants who have come from very
impoverished milieu and cracked the exam. A few years ago, Sopan brought out an
issue on successful candidates of UPSC exam drawn from rural backgrounds. Some
of them were children of rickshaw pullers and tea vendors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 24.0pt;">I am reminded of a friend who cracked the UPSC exam a few years
ago. He hails from an impoverished village in <st1:place w:st="on">Maharashtra</st1:place>.
He gave the name of a backward district in Odisha as his option. He is now
collector there. His innovative initiatives have changed the lives of thousands
of poor tribals in his district<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-60654732910618110372016-05-10T07:01:00.001-04:002016-05-10T07:03:21.721-04:00Soil Testing: Fundamental to sustainable agriculture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><i> <span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">SANJU VERMA</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mother earth is so far the
only place of living organism in the Universe to live, as no other planet in
the solar system or otherwise in the whole of Universe, there is any evidence
of life. Air, Water and soil are the pre-requisite for existence of life, which
also include human beings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For Human beings and other
animals air is compulsorily required for combustion to generate energy from
food to continue life. Generation of food is entirely dependent on water and
soil, which is found on the upper crust of earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Like the quality of air, quality
of water and soil is also important for sustaining life on earth. Thus
sustainability of any human activity is of paramount importance in the modern
world, as our forefathers have mindlessly exploited the resources provided by
mother land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Agriculture is the core
vocation of mankind and without it nothing could be perceived. But in
yesteryears, with an urge to have more produce from smaller prices of lands
farmers used excessive chemicals and fertilizers and have thus destroyed the
quality of soil. Now a big question looms, as to how sustainable is the current
course of agriculture in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Keeping this in mind, the
government launched a national scheme of scientifically testing the soil
quality and accordingly farmers are suggested to use limited fertilizers. The
method is well recognised as a sound scientific tool to assess inherent power
of soil to supply plant nutrients.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The benefits of soil testing
have been established through scientific research, extensive field
demonstrations, and on the basis of actual fertilizer use by the farmers on
soil test based fertilizer use recommendations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Soil testing was initiated in
the country in the beginning of planning era by setting up of 16 soil testing
laboratories during 1955. Government of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> has been supporting this
programme during different plan periods to increase the soil analysing capacity
in the country. The numerical strength does not, however, decisively indicate
the quality and success of the programme. Planners and agriculturalists have
recognised the utility of the service fully but it suffers due to inadequate
scientific support in its execution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Thus the present government
under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a special
emphasis on the scheme. Modi personally called upon the farmers to participate
in the scheme. He has also urged the schools and colleges to come up in a big
way and use laboratory during holidays to test soil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">However, despite constraints,
the scheme is bearing fruit up to some extent with its limited resources
however another major limitation is the illiteracy factor among the farmers for
whom the entire scheme is dedicated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">With about 12 crore farm
holdings in the country, soil analysing capacity of 4 crore samples annually is
required to enable analysis of each holding once in three years. In Haryana
renewal of SHC is required after every five years while soil fertility map is
also being prepared. All these require a massive expansion in soil testing
programme in the States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">However, a few of the States
including Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh have
made commendable progress in soil testing programme in various ways such as
expansion of soil testing facilities, popularisation of the programme in
campaign mode, development of soil fertility maps and use of information
technology in delivering soil nutrient status and appropriate recommendation to
farmers.</span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-7952870865458235812016-04-07T10:11:00.001-04:002016-04-07T10:12:16.809-04:00Market Linkages for Farmers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Vijay Uppal</span></i></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b>T</b>he</i> farming sector has been in the
news of late for all wrong reasons. In many areas in the country, the sector
has been reeling under a massive scarcity of water. Above all these, the
farmers across the country are not able to generate enough revenue out of their
produce.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The stunning facts are as follows:-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Vegetable/Fruits/Milk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Approx. price <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(<b>at which
farmer sells</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Approx. Price<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(<b>at which you
buy</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Potato<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rs. 4-8/- per kg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rs. 15-20/- per kg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tomato<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rs. 8-12/- per kg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rs. 25-35/- per kg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Apple(H.P)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rs. 30-40/- per kg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rs. 100-125/- per kg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Capsicum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rs. 15-20/- per kg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rs. 50-60/- per kg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Milk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rs. 18-25/- per ltr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rs. 40-45/- per ltr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Shocked? </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But this is true. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A farmer who produces vegetables,
fruits, milk, etc. and toils in the field for hours in extreme weather
conditions is getting only ¼ or 1/5 of the price at which you are buying in
cities as a consumer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Who is making the money
and why the farmers are being exploited?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is the middle man / Aadhti who is
making the real money. The common farmer is unlike the AMUL scenario where
farmer co-operative societies are very well organized (thanks to the pioneering
efforts of Mr. Verghese Kurien). The farmers do not have the capacity to hold
the vegetables, fruits, milk stocks (because of the perishable nature of these
products) in order to fetch the right price. Whenever, the farmer sees that the
shelf life of his produce is getting over, he under prices his product and
sells it to the greedy middle man. This middle man is always on the look-out
for an opportunity to exploit the farmer during such a situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In fact, it has been seen that the
middle men create a cartel through which they buy the fruits and vegetables and
other farm produce at a very low price from the farmer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What are the solutions? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The solutions (to this growing
disparity of income of the farmer) are as follows:-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Farmers producing same
variety of vegetable and fruits should form small groups / co-operatives of 50
to 100 farmers each in every region and collectively negotiate the fair price of
their farm produce with the middle man /
aadhti.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The institutional buying
can be directly linked to the farmers or farming community. e.g. in Delhi /
N.C.R the requirement of baby corn in 5 star / 3 star hotels is approx. 1000kgs
per day. The consumption can be met easily by a group of farmers sitting in
Uttarakhand. The only catch is that these farmers in Uttarakhand need to be
collectively represented by any of the NGOs or a transparent Marketing Agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
type of a scheme, if introduced properly can eliminate the process of farmer
going through multiple middlemen and only one agency with reasonable margin can
take care of marketing the farm produce of farmers from Uttarakhand or Western
UP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
way to go forward is to encourage a group of farmers to produce high yield
value added vegetables and fruits like Olive, Yellow/red Capsicum, Cherry
tomato, Broccoli and Mushroom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At a later stage, this
agency can install a mini food processing plant to semi process vegetables (at
the farms) like Baby corn, Yellow/red Capsicum, Cherry tomato, Broccoli and Mushroom
etc. Also, the farmers collectively can invest in refrigerated vans in order to
ensure smooth transportation of highly perishable products to far off places.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another solution is that
with the Ayurveda products gaining in demand and brands like Patanjali becoming
household names, it makes sense to grow herbs, medicinal plants like Jatamasi, Neem,
Haldi, Tulsi, Gilohi, Aloevera etc. A<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>lso, the aromatic
plants can be grown whose market price is beyond the farmers’ expectations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes,
people are noticing disparity in farmers’ income, but the way to go forward is
to explore and implement the above solutions in the right manner.</span></span></div>
</div>
SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-8974205589869115292016-03-29T14:00:00.003-04:002016-03-29T14:00:52.965-04:00People’s movement on water only way out!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>K.A.Badarinath</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><i>A</i></b> peoples’ movement to conserve fresh water is perhaps
the only way to address the key issue of shortages in this vital resource.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If the sheer abuse of this scarce
resource is any indication, we are bound to face water riots in parts of this
country as seen sporadically owing to localized shortages in some parts.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Warning bells, red herrings and
wakeup calls seem to have not worked thus far on judicious utilization,
conservation and development of water resources as per a design in last 67
years of independence.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At every level, each sector has
shown utmost disregard for managing our fresh water resources while the
population continues to expand beyond 1.22 billion with no let up on either
usage or abuse.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last Sunday, in his “mann ki
baat”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi did make out a case for peoples’ movement
for managing and developing water resources. This was in response to some
engineering and medicine students taking a stand to have a bath only when
required and with minimum water.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Apart from people’s movement for
scientific water usage of water, policy intervention is what’s most important
to move up the ground water level. The government’s campaign to develop 50,000
check dams and village-based water storage centres is worth pursuing if we were
to manage water shortages that could virtually catapult into a crisis
unmanageable in few years.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Water management, usage,
conservation and development is not an issue faced only by a populous country
like <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
US space agency, NASA findings suggest that more than half the 37 largest
aquifers globally are fast depleting and virtually beyond redemption.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As per NASA satellite imaging and
studies, water table in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
continued to deplete by 0.3 metres each year thereby seeking policy makers to
sit up and search for solutions.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hence, Prime Minister Modi’s call
for deriving more in terms of farm output from every drop of water cannot just
remain a slogan. Technological intervention that would mend the way we use our
precious natural fresh water resources is the immediate necessity.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">World Economic Forum and UN’s
water development report have pointed to the fact that water would be the
biggest challenge for humanity, given that fresh water shortages would touch an
alarming 40 percent globally<span class="apple-converted-space"> <span data-term="goog_1098723452" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"></span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;">in 15 years</span></span></span>.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If this were to happen, it would
be a larger problem than terrorism or armed conflicts happening in parts of the
world.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s point of view, re-designing
our farming techniques, industrial and domestic consumption of water should be
relooked at to provide comprehensive solutions for impending water crisis.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Apart from check dams, the
government at centre and states should take the lead in reviving the water
bodies that have dried up or desilt our lakes, rivers and flowing water
resources. Secondly, linking rivers for replenishment and judicious usage must
be hastened up. Suresh Prabhu as a central minister in erstwhile Vajpayee
government did make several important suggestions apart from drawing up a
holistic plan. This needs to be dusted up immediately and put into action.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thirdly, as experimented in
several villages of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Maharastra, building water
banks can be done immediately. Only members of these banks can withdraw water
as per a community policy that can be put together locally.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Fourthly, involving the
communities, non-government organisations, youth & students apart from gram
sabhas in water management is of paramount importance.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Fifthly, one needs to consider an
effective pricing policy towards water only to dissuade companies and
commercial establishments from exploitation of this vital resource. For
drinking purposes, no one what so ever should be charged as a matter of human
right.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-82591918279532216502016-03-18T05:53:00.002-04:002016-03-18T05:53:46.482-04:00 Banking the women<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Lakshmi Singh</span></i><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">With access to financial services like bank accounts,
loans, etc, women’s bargaining power in society increases</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><i>Our</i> country is positioned at the 29th
rank among 146 countries across the globe on the basis of Gender Inequality
Index. It is ironical that a country,
which has recently acclaimed the status of the first Asian country to
accomplish its Mars mission in the maiden attempt, There has been amelioration in the position of
women, but their true empowerment is still awaited. While the world has
achieved progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment under
the Millennium Development Goals, women and girls continue to suffer
discrimination and violence in every part of the world. Women are considered a
taboo and still are not allowed in a few temples with nationwide debates
discussing this. Experts say that women can achieve gender parity only by
2135. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">We all know that women constitute
half the population and so their equal participation in society is imperative
for sustainable development. As long as a financial security is not achieved,
their emancipation becomes impossible. Financial inclusion plays a crucial role
in helping provide numerous benefits through the strengthening of the banking
system. In countries like Mexico, Government has made schemes for women which
are directly connected to their bank accounts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">There is no denying that the banking
sector plays a critical role in bringing financially excluded people into the
formal financial sector. Many government initiatives towards financial inclusion
are implemented through banks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">In one of the Financial and Digital
Inclusion Project report India ranked ninth among 21 countries in financial and
digital inclusion efforts. This was based on four dimensions of financial
inclusion: country commitment, mobile capacity, regulatory environment, and
adoption of traditional and digital financial services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
(PMJDY), the biggest financial inclusion initiative in the world, is a case in
point. PMJDY is enabling citizens at the grassroots to perform financial
transactions and keep their hard-earned money safe. A year after the scheme was
implemented, its success has highlighted the enormous role that financial
inclusion programmes can play in the growth of the economy. Today, atleast 17.5
crore bank accounts have been opened in which women have deposited more than Rs
22,000 crore in them. Moreover zero-balance accounts under PMJDY have declined
from 76 per cent to 45.74 per cent since its inception.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> Many of the private sector banks have come
forward in the rural markets through microfinance institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Some of the State governments like
Rajasthan have taken the lead. In Rajasthan, financial inclusion forms a
critical component in the form of
Bhamashah Yojana that connects itself with women’s empowerment. The scheme was
launched in 2008 based on the premise that conditional and direct transfer has
the highest impact of government spending on poverty reduction. Monetary
benefits to which families were entitled under a number of welfare schemes were
transferred to the bank accounts of the women in the family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">It was the first direct benefit
transfer scheme in the country. At that time, 50 lakh families were enrolled
and 29.07 lakh bank accounts were opened under which Rs 161.49 crore had been
transferred in 10.76 lakh accounts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">In 2014, the Bhamashah initiative was
refurbished with a broader coverage of gender empowerment, financial inclusion
and family-based benefits. It now provides end-to-end delivery system for individuals
and various family-based benefits of the government’s social welfare scheme
like the PDS, pension funds, health insurance, MNREGA and scholarships through
a centralised e-government platform by leveraging the enhanced electronic
infrastructure of the state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">These transfers are made to the bank
account of the woman of the house through the Bhamashah smart card, which also
provides biometric identification of family members. The card is also a
co-branded debit card with the participation of several banks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Many of the NGOs have taken active
step in this direction. The Mahila banks in a state like Jharkhand where women
are not considered other than child rearing is an innovative solution in a
dominant patriarchal society.</span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> <br />
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Alternative for India Development (AID), an Indian NGO that works to better the
lives of tribal communities. AID established Mahila Bank in 2007. Mahila Bank
is a unique twist on the mobile banking trend that had been sweeping the
development sector. Instead of simply providing accounts to women across these
communities, AID employs women from the community to manage local ‘branches’ in
easy to access locations. When applying for a bank account, these branches use
biometric technology to ensure the bank accounts are secure and may only be
accessed by the owner. Additionally, AID employs a cadre of local women
who provide training, and lead community meetings in the scattered villages
across Jharkhand on the various schemes available and why banking is important.</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The merits of
financial inclusion are deeply rooted in citizen empowerment. Financial inclusion can be a powerful agent for
strong and inclusive growth of women and their empowerment</span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-8972017590166275282016-02-19T02:03:00.000-05:002016-02-19T02:43:12.134-05:00Street children falling victims to drug menace <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 22.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 22pt;">Lakshmi Singh</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 22.0pt;"><b><i> A study suggests 27 per cent of call centre
workers in the country use drugs. Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh today have the
highest number of school children using drugs.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Drug menace among children
belonging to the upper class is not a new phenomenon. Earlier, <st1:place w:st="on">Goa</st1:place> was a hub of drugs. Even in some high-end parties in
major metros, drugs keep guests on a high. Use of cocaine and mind-altering
amphetamines has become very common.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Technology has also helped
spread and access to drugs. You can order it via internet and get it
home-delivered. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is now a hub of drugs sold through illegal internet pharmacies and courier
companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A study suggests 27 per cent
of call centre workers in the country use drugs. Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
today have the highest number of school children using drugs. About 70 per cent
of the youth in <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place> are addicts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What is alarming is tobacco,
cannabis, inhalants, sedatives, heroin and opium are some of the common items
which are consumed among children on streets, according to a study by the
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Some of the findings of the
study were that over 50 per cent children living on streets reported bad or
very bad relationship or no relationship with the family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The percentage of inhalant
users was higher in the children living
on streets than in children living at home and the lifetime and last one year
usage of opium was higher in the children living on streets than in children
living at home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The study "Assessment of
pattern, profile and correlates of substance use among children in <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>" conducted through the National
Dependent Treatment Centre at All <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), <st1:city w:st="on">New Delhi</st1:city>,
covered 135 sites across 27 states and two <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Union</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Territories</st1:placetype></st1:place>
with a sample size of 4,024 children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">If declining agricultural
incomes and increasing unemployment have made drug addiction a culture in the
states like <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place>, the irony of street kids
are broken homes which forced them to reach the capital to get addicted into
drugs due to torture by police and poverty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Drugs are so easily available
to school kids to street kids. The natural drugs like marijuana and hashish are
mostly famous among teenagers as it fits their monthly pocket money. What has
revolutionised the market are more lethal synthetic substances, popular with a
generation that now experiments with cocktails simply put, a mix and match of
drugs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Until a few months earlier, a
new and cheap drug Mephedrone, commonly called meow meow was legally available
and could even be ordered online. A poor man’s cocaine, this white powder cost
just Rs.150 per gram. With almost 80,000 children between the ages of thirteen
and sixteen believed to be addicted to meow meow, the drug was banned in
February this year. But the market for Cocaine, which costs Rs. 3,000 for a
gram is only expanding, with increasing popularity amongst the rich and
glamourous. It is also one of the most dangerous, laced with unknown
substances, including powdered glass. The purer it is, the higher it costs. If
you want the best, you could even be paying Rs. 20,000 per gram.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Most of the kids who were
found selling books flowers, clean cars, beg and steal at the traffic signals
in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Delhi</st1:place></st1:city> were
aged between the age of 8 and 17 years. A survey conducted by the NGO Salaam
Balak Trust says that most of the kids reached the capital to either escape an
alcoholic father or a step mother who was to push them into prostitution. They
took a train to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Delhi</st1:place></st1:city>,
got snuffed by gangs roaming the platforms and since then, it has been a story
of rape, torture, drugs and starvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The National Crime Record
Bureau (NCRB) came out with shocking figures of crimes against children: 5,484
children were raped and 1,408 others killed in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> last year. In the Capital
alone, 29 children were murdered and 304 raped in 2010. But these figures do
not include even a fraction of crimes committed against street children.
"Not even 10% cases of rape, sodomy or murder of street children are
recorded. Who is going to file an FIR for these children who have been
abandoned by society and trapped by gangs?" asks Prabhakar Goswami,
Director of i-India, a Jaipur-based NGO which runs a helpline for street
children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The NCRB figures are based on
FIR and daily diary reports and, therefore, hide more than they reveal as the
worst victims of child abuse are not counted at all. "Street children are
abuse physically, mentally and sexually on a daily basis. They get trapped in a
cycle of abuse that leads to drugs and crimes, but no one is bothered,"
says Sanjay Gupta, Director of Chetna, an NGO working for street children in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Delhi</st1:place></st1:city>. "In <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Delhi</st1:place></st1:city>, there are at least
five lakh street children, but in government records, less than 50,000
exist."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">More than 20,000 people have
committed suicide due to drug addiction related issues in the last 10 years.
There’s an urgent call to treat this as the epidemic. Else rural or urban, this
calls for urgent attention or else we’ll soon be facing India’s lost generation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-84473999595642775712016-02-12T10:05:00.000-05:002016-02-12T10:05:20.152-05:00A good U-turn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"> <b><i>Mukesh R</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Narendra
Modi</i> government was in news recently for taking U-turn on its stand on the
previous UPA’s flagship programme for rural employment MGNREGA. But thankfully,
it was not a bad U-Turn. In one of his speeches in parliament Prime Minister
Narendra Modi had said, his political acumen says, he should continue with the
MGNREGA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">According
to media reports that cited a circular, the proposal was to amend the NREG Act
by restricting the area of work and altering the labour-material cost ratio.
The plan was to limit the scheme that guarantees 100 days of employment to the
rural poor to just 2,500 blocks as against 6,500 blocks. Further the
wage-material cost ratio was to be altered in favour of material - from 60:40
to 51:49. What this means is that until now 60 percent of the expenditure was
spent as wages and 40 percent as cost of material.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">As per
the proposal, the spending on wages would drop to almost the same as that spent
on material, which would mean a reduction in the funds set aside for wages.
Moreover, there were also plans to curtail the central government's fund
disbursal to states, with Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah even seeing the
allocation to the state being halved.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">These
were the proposals made by former Rural Development Minister Nitin Gadkari. Now
new minister Birender Singh has told Rajya Sabha that there will not be any
change in the scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">"There
is no ambiguity about the government's intention. The scheme will continue in
all the 6,500 blocks," Singh said, allaying all apprehensions that the new
government may be killing the scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">According
to a PTI report, he also said all necessary funds have been released and
assured the 60:40 ratio on labour and material would not be altered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">What
prompted this U-turn from the proposed amendments is a hue and cry raised by a
section of economists, rights activists and other political parties. According
to a Firstpost report, the economists, including Jayati Ghosh of JNU and
Anirban Kar of Delhi School of Economics, had shot off a letter to Prime
Minister Narendra Modi urging him not to make changes to the scheme that
provides livelihood for about 50 million households.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whatever
the reason, the change in stance is welcome because going ahead with the
decision to alter the scheme would have been a flawed one given the signs of
weakness in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
rural economy.</span></span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-37770965066054809702016-01-29T01:32:00.000-05:002016-01-29T01:32:06.924-05:00Global slowdown triggered by China offers India a golden opportunity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i>India is in a sweet spot as global economy is not looking good in the face
of market turmoil in China. A global recession triggered by poor showing of
European economy had hit badly the export led growth model of China, whose
economy grew by 6.9 per cent in 2015, the slowest in two decades. Following
this slowdown, high commodity prices had started correcting exerting more
pressure on China down turn. The massive over investment in China in steel,
cement, shipbuilding, petrochemicals, real estate and other infrastructure
sectors began to burst. This volatality in equity and commodity markets did not
augur well for the global and Chinese economies. Global economy may not be in a
crisis as in 2008 during the financial meltdown but it is certainly not out of the
woods and outlook for global economy is certainly bearish in 2016.</i></b><br />
<b><i>
In such a scenario, there will certainly be some ripple effect on India but
there will be no menace as is happening elsewhere in the world. This is because
India is now a reviving economy with strong fundamentals. The current account
deficit is below one per cent of GDP, Inflation is down though there is some
increase in food inflation lately and foreign exchange reserved comfortable and
swelling. The fiscal deficit has been reined in and is withing manageable limit
of less than four per cent and is falling further partly because sharp fall in
commodity prices particularly oil, which has pushed down drastically subsidy
bill. It has also helped in increasing indirect tax revenue because increase in
excise duty to pre-crisis level.<br />
This is the time for India to get its act together and Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley rightly put it at the World Economic Forum summit at Davos. Exuding
confidence on the Indian Economy, Jaitley said India would utilise the headroom
available to get some additional growth engines going through efforts to revive
private investments.<br />
Several speakers at the ongoing Davos Summit in stressing that India will be
the next growth engine of the World with the picture in China and Europe
gloomy. It is not very good in US as well. Reserve Bank of India Governor
Raghuram Rajan has aptly summed up India's comfortable situation. He termed
India as a recovering economy, despite weak global markets and two consecutive
years of poor rain. As these things turn, growth will get stronger, he said.
When the growth rate is falling elsewhere in the World, India's growth is
increasing to become the fastest growing economy in the world. Of course India
is growing to its potential as yet at 9-10 per cent annually. For that to
happen, India needs to push investments in infrastructure and kick-start
private investment to get the economy firing all fronts. The fall in commodity
prices will help in pushing investments in infrastructure as input costs in
steel, cement and the like will come down substantially. <br />
The General Budget to be presented to Parliament by Jaitley on <span class="aqj">February 29</span> provides an opportunity to push reforms so as to
get its house to convert the global challenges to opportunity to take the
Indian Economy to new high. This is a golden opportunity for India to become an
economic power. We had similar opportunity in 2004-05 and we missed the bus.
Hope we do not miss the bus this time. If we get it right this time the 21<sup>st</sup>
century would belong to India, which is not only in sweet spot but also it has
has the demographic dividend with 65 per cent of the 1.25 billion population
below the age of 35 years. The country is geared to cash in on this once in a
lifetime opportunity. The general budget, particularly game changing tax
reforms like GST, bankruptcy law, make in India hold the key.<br />
So far India has not been able to grow to its potential barring 2004-08 when
the economy clocked nearly a double-digit annual growth. One of the major reasons
for growing to our potential is corruption at all levels right from the top to
bottom. This is a menace that is deep-rooted in the country and Prime Minister
Narendra Modi showed lot of promise to end this menace, when he secured
majority in Lok Sabha elections in 2014, first time any party has done in the
last 30 years. But so far there is no visible effort to end this corruption
menace so as to ensure the economy marched ahead.<br />
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-63741144119822812702016-01-16T15:05:00.000-05:002016-01-16T15:05:22.220-05:00कृषि भूमि पर महिलाओं का बढ़ता अधिकार<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i>महिलाओं के अधिकार क्षेत्र में देश की इस समय 01 करोड़ 65 लाख हेक्टेयर कृषि भूमि है। जो देश की कुल कृषि योग्य भूमि का 10.30 फीसदी हिस्सा है</i></b><br />
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विश्व बैक द्वारा हाल मंे किए गए अध्ययन से यह बात स्पष्ट हुई है कि भारत की कृषि भूमि पर अब महिलाओं का अधिकार बढ़ा है। 2001-11 के प्राप्त आंकड़ों को आधार बनाकर किए गए अध्ययन में पाया गया है कि ऐसी जमीन जिस पर महिलाओं का अधिकार है, जिस पर उनका नियंत्रण है, जिस जमीन पर वे खुद खेती कर रहीं हैं, ऐसी जमीन में इस दशक में तेजी से वृद्धि हुई है।<br />
वैसे इस तेजी से हुई वृद्धि के बाद भी महिलाओं के कब्जे में दस फीसदी ही जमीन है। महिलाओं की भागीदारी की बात करें तो कृषि भूमि पर इसमंे 36 फीसदी की वृद्धि हुई है। वहीं इस दशक में उनके नियंत्रण के भूमि क्षेत्रफल में 24 फीसदी की बढ़ोत्तरी हुई है। अब यह जानना दिलचस्प होगा कि महिलाओं में जहां मालिकाना हक को लेकर 36 फीसदी की वृद्धी दर्ज की गई, वहीं पुरुषों के बीच यह वृद्धि महज 13 फीसदी है। इस बीच महिलाओं का जमीन पर अधिकार जहां 24 फीसदी बढ़ा है, वहीं पुरुषों का कृषि भूमि पर अधिकार 02 फीसदी कम हुआ है।<br />
महिलाओं के नियंत्रण मंे देश की कृषि भूमि की बढ़ोत्तरी एक शुभ संकेत है। भारत मंे हम जानते हैं कि पारंपरिक तौर से महिलाआंे को पुरुषांे के मुकाबले कम अधिकार मिले है। यह बात विश्व बैंक के अध्ययन से भी साबित हुई है कि महिलाओं का जमीन पर अधिकार होगा तो यह उनके आत्मविश्वास को बढ़ाएगा। उन्हें आत्मनिर्भर बनाएगा। इससे देश में उनकी आर्थिक सामाजिक स्थिति में भी सुधार आएगा।<br />
महिलाआंे के अधिकार क्षेत्र में देश की इस समय 01 करोड़ 65 लाख हेक्टेयर कृषि भूमि है। जो देश की कुल कृषि योग्य भूमि का 10.30 फीसदी हिस्सा है।<br />
इस अध्ययन के सार्वजनिक होने के कुछ दिनों पहले ग्रामीण विकास राज्य मंत्री सुदर्शन भगत ने कहा था कि सरकार स्त्री अधिकारों के लिए देश व्यापी जागरूकता का एक कार्यक्रम प्रारंभ करने वाली है। जो महिलाओं के सामाजिक आर्थिक अधिकार, कानूनी अधिकार और भूमि पर अधिकार को लेकर समाज में जो पूर्वाग्रह और भेदभाव की सोच है, उसे दूर करने का प्रयास करेगी।<br />
महिलाओं के बढ़ते कदमों को प्रमाणित करता यह अध्ययन बदलाव की आहट है, इसे सुने और इस बदलाव का हम सब मिलकर स्वागत करें। क्योंकि स्त्री पुरुष बराबरी सिर्फ राजनीतिक नारा बनकर ना रह जाए।<br />
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-91239860023910056292015-12-22T07:29:00.005-05:002015-12-22T07:29:50.006-05:00Gloom & doom on farm front<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;">K.A.Badarinath</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i><b>S</b>econd </i>consecutive drought owing to monsoon failure has brought
gloom to our farmers and rural distress is on spread across the country.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">While our worthy Parliamentarians slug
it out on “unworthy” issues during the month-long winter session, the life in
rural <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
continues to become worse with spread of monsoon misery.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">The narrative on farm front continues to
chronicle pain and suffering of our farmers while Delhites are worried about
rather mundane issue of an odd and even numbers plan for movement of their cars
beginning 2016.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cotton and basmati growers in <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place> to sugarcane farmers in Western Uttar Pradesh, the
story is that of utter gloom and pain with no state compensation or insurance
companies coming to their aid. White fly attack and low prices has worsened
farmers’ lives in <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place>. Non-payment of
sugarcane arrears has pushed farmers in Western Uttar Pradesh to despair.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">Same is the story of farmers in Odisha,
Madhya Pradesh, <st1:place w:st="on">Bihar</st1:place> and Maharastra where
they continue to be trampled by the vicious money lenders given monsoon
failures.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">Low commodity prices, virus attack and
failure of monsoon has ensured regular reports of farmers suicides while the
states and centre have become mute spectators to their desperate acts of ending
lives.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">When Indian Express detailed the
suicides of five farmers<span class="apple-converted-space"> <span data-term="goog_510441513" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"></span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;">in
30 days</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>across
the drought prone Nabarangpur in Odisha, the district’s officials and Naveen
Pattanaik government in Bhubaneshwar claimed there were other reasons for these
deaths. Officials even disputed the fact that they were farmers.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">Fourteen farmers’ deaths in Madhya
Pradesh had chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan sit up as many of them are
from his home district of Vidisha as the soya crop failed due to monsoon
failure and yellow virus hit the white lentils or urad crop.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">Madhya Pradesh has declared 41 out of 50
districts drought hit and requested Rs 10,000 crore to tackle one of worst farm
crises in the state.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">This phenomenon of drought is not just
limited to Madhya Pradesh. In fact, half of 600 districts across 18 states are
in the grip of continued drought. If agriculture experts were to be believed,
only four times in last 100 years that the country experienced back to back
droughts. And, the year coming to an end is one of the worst.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">All pervasive opinion is that the rural
economy has come to a grinding halt, centre and states will have to think out
of the box to tackle this crisis.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">But does the moot question is does the
political leadership at centre and states have this as the priority? Would they
go beyond <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Delhi</st1:place></st1:city>
to look at life on farm lands is the moot question.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attention, issue specific to each state needs different solution to tide over
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<span style="font-size: large;">The food we eat is the cause of about 90 per cent of our
diseases and health problems. With increase in affluence and pressures of
modern life, we started punishing our bodies, knowingly or unknowingly.
Besides, those who produce and sell food items and other dietary products, in
the lure of money, often indulge in food adulteration. Even permissible
ingredients in food items sometimes cause serious health problems. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although there are sufficient legislations to prevent, they
have failed to curb the menace. The aim of Prevention of Food Adulteration Act
is to ensure that consumers get pure and wholesome and also prevent fraud or
deception. The initial legislation had loopholes and hence the Act has been
amended three times in 1964, 1976 and in 1986. The punishments have been made
more stringent and Consumers and Voluntary Organizations have been empowered to
play a more effective role in its implementation. The PFA Act is in the list of
the constitution but it is enforced by the State/U.T Governments. The major
role of Central Government is as an advisory in its implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first law to regulate the quality of food was made in
the country 1899. Up till 1954 the states made their own food laws and there
were substantial differences in the rules and specifications of the food. This
hindered inter-provincial trade. The Central Government is empowered by the
Constitution of India for making legislations on Food and Drugs Adulteration. A
legislation called Prevention of Food adulteration Act (PFA) was endorsed in
the year 1954 for making uniformity in food laws all over <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>. It came
into effect from 15 June, 1955.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Prevention of Food Adulteration Programme: The under PFA
Rules have been amended several times and quality standards for about 250 food
articles which are commonly consumed in India have been fixed. Implementation
of food standards in corporation/municipal area rests with the local bodies.
These bodies employ their own food inspectors for examination and maintenance
of standards. They are responsible for licensing of food
industries/establishments as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (FSSA) was passed by
Parliament in August 2006. After this
legislation came into effect the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954
stands revoked. However the standards, safety requirements and other provisions
of the Act and the rules and regulations made under Prevention of Food
Adulteration Act are still followed by this act until new standards are
specified under this Act or rules and regulations made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Provided that anything done or any action taken under the
enactment and Orders under repeal shall be deemed to have been done or taken
under the corresponding provisions of this Act and shall continue in force
accordingly unless and until superseded by anything done or by any action taken
under this Act. Owing to trade in food commodities globally, food safety is no
longer considered as a domestic issue. The WTO has specified that development
of modern food control and safety programs by national Governments are needed.
Food quality refers not only to end product parameters but also to process
control. The Central Government has started a Project for Food Safety and
Quality Control of Drugs with aid from World Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over 68 per cent of milk sold in the country does not
conform to the standards set by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of
India (FSSAI), the Centre had told the Supreme Court on a plea for checking
sale of synthetic and adulterated milk and various dairy products.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The submission has been made by the Centre in its affidavit
which referred to a survey conducted by the FSSAI, which had found that over 68
per cent of the "non-conforming" milk was found in urban areas, 66
per cent of which was loose milk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We often find that food we used to traditionally eat was the
most appropriate for our health. There are efforts going on in the country to
promote traditional food items. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Annam</st1:country-region>
being held in <st1:city w:st="on">Kochi</st1:city>
is one such endeavour.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Onion and pulses prices soar periodically in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> and that
too ahead of elections bringing tears to common man and deny much needed
protein for growth to the poor. This happens despite the fact that the
production has increased substantially in the country. Onion production has
doubled in the last 7-8 years to 190 lakh tonnes. The pulses production might
not grown that rapidly but <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is the largest production of pulses at 19.5 million tonnes. The country is also
the largest importer of pulses at 3.5 million tonnes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">In onion the wastage is around 30-40 lakh tonnes every year. The
shortfall during years of crop failure or destruction of standing onion crops
due to floods or unseasonal rails is usually not more than 10 lakh tonnes. When
this shortfall is not bridged prices skyrocket and political parties take
advantage of it. Sometimes shortfall is engineered to manipulate prices. If
only the country manages save just 25-30 per cent of the wastage through better
cold storage facility, the supply can be regulated preventing any spurt in
prices. Unfortunately this does not happen in the country as it prevents
traders and political bosses to reap benefit from price manipulations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">In the case of pulses the problem is more complex. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> is the
only country which consumes huge quantity of pulses as it is perhaps the major
source of cheap protein, particularly for vegetarians. Here the problem is
there is no incentive for farmers to increase production of pulses unlike in
rice and wheat where minimum support prices is increased substantially
disproportionate to the increase in input costs. This disincentivise farmers
from producing pulses as there is also no proper procurement policy for pulses
like in the case of food grains, where the country has stocks, which is three
times more the buffer required to meet any contingency at around 60 million
tonnes. One of the reasons the BJP lost the recent <st1:place w:st="on">Bihar</st1:place>
assembly elections because of the soaring prices of pulses, which touched Rs
200 a kilo. Rightly government has thought of creating a buffer now for pulses.
The agriculture ministry has now decided to create a buffer of 50,000 tonnes of
pulses using the market stablisation fund. The new pulses crops start coming
into the market from January and government would start creation through
imported pulses from that month. Initially it will import 10,000 tonnes. This
makes sense as when <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
imports huge quantity during shortage global prices of pulses soar as it
happened recently. The prices of imported pulses, which was around $700 per tonne
in August rose to $1900 a tonne in October when <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> imported huge quantity to
meet the shortfall to stablise prices. Another problem with pulses not many
countries produce pulses apart from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>. It is produced only in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region> and certain varieties like chik-pea in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>. So imported pulses is not
available all that easily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">As a permanent solution <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> needed to encourage Indian
farmers to produce more pulses on a mission mode shifting some of the surplus
rice and wheat production to pulse through incentives like higher MSP and so
on. Also private Indian businessmen could buy huge quantity of land in Africa,
particularly <st1:place w:st="on">East Africa</st1:place> which is conducive
for growing pulses. The quantity produced produced there could brought to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> to create
much needed buffer bringing about price stability. President Pranab Mukherjee,
gave some incentives for increasing pulses production in <st1:place w:st="on">Eastern
India</st1:place> when he was Finance Minister. That did help in marginally
increasing pulses production in subsequent years but unfortunately that
programme has appraently not been sustained and expanded. There is also scope
for increasing yield of pulses in the country as it is usually grown only in
arid region. If it is grown irrigated area, the yield automatically increases,
but farmers prefers to grow rice and wheat as it ensure assured and
remunerative prices. Government should therefore come out with some incentives
to farmers to shift to pulses cultivation in some of their irrigated land in
the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Rating agency
Crisil has said in a recent report that there is a clear pattern of a spike in
pulses inflation every third year, though this year the peak is higher than the
last two peaks, with wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation already
crossing 34 per cent average so far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">It said this
year’s spike can be explained by supply side shocks, mainly from deficient
monsoon and higher global prices, while various other factors – such as drought
and delayed rains, high growth, shift toward protein consumption and demand
pushed up by higher rural wages due to NREGA – can explain the previous spikes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pulses is grown in all seasons, rabi and kharif. Its shorter variety is grown
during the intermediate season, thereby there is a three crop every year. But
in <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> it is mostly a rabi
crop and four states, Madhya Pradesh, <st1:place w:st="on">Maharashtra</st1:place>,
Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh account for 70 per cent of the production. But
pulses is grown in most parts of the country in smaller quantity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Crisil
report noted that while food prices were the biggest contributor to the decline
in the consumer price inflation (CPI), pulses inflation had seen the sharpest
spike in a decade. The CPI and WPI inflation for pulses was 42.2 per cent and
53 per cent, respectively, in October.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">This statistics
reveals more than what they hide. It is certainly a wake up call for the
government to act to deal with this problem, which is not insurmountable. But
the question is will the government have the political will as price
manipulations benefits traders and political parties to the deteriment of
common man. Anyway Narentdra Modi government has made a beginning by deciding
to create a buffer of pulses and one only hope it is carried forward to bring
about price stability. It would augur well for common man, if onion is tackled
on a permanent basis to provide relief to common man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b> (K. R Sudhaman,</b> who has 40 years of experience
in journalism in currently Editor, SMEpost.com and has been Editor in Press
Trust of India, TickerNews and Financial Chronicle<b>)</b></i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i>आशीष कुंमार अंशु</i></b><br />
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<i><b>जब एक कंपनी पर प्रतिबंध लगे और छह महीने बाद वह बाजार में इस तरह उतर आए जैसे कुछ हुआ नहीं था फिर समाज के बीच एक गलत संदेश जाता है। जब कंपनी के पिछे एक बहुराष्ट्रीय जनसंपर्क कंपनी हो तो यह संदेह और गहरा हो जाता है।</b></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">दीपावली पर मैगी की वापसी बाजार में एक बार फिर से हुई है। दो मिनट में बनने वाली मैगी की प्रतिबंध के बाद वापसी में पूरे छह महीने का वक्त लगा। मैगी स्वीट्जरलैंड की कंपनी नेसले जो दुनिया की सबसे बड़ी पैकेज्ड फूड की कंपनी है, का उत्पाद है।</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> 30 अप्रैल को मैगी विवाद मीडिया में आया। खबर यह थी कि मैगी के नमूने में लेड और एमएसजी (मोनो सोडियम ग्लूटमेट) जरूरत से अधिक पाया गया है। लखनऊ में आधिकारिक तौर पर कंपनी को अपना माल समेट कर वापस ले जाने का निर्देश मिला। उसके बाद मीडिया में मैगी द्वारा अपना माल वापस मंगाए जाने और उसे नष्ट किए जाने की खबर आती रही लेकिन पूरे एक महीने तक मैगी ने मीडिया से बातचीत नहंी की। एक महीने बाद मीडिया के सामने नेसले के सीईओ पॉल बुलके का बयान आया- ‘मैगी सुरक्षित है।’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">जब पॉल मीडिया को यह आश्वस्त कर रहे थे कि मैगी सुरक्षित है। उस दौरान एक के बाद एक राज्य में मैगी पर प्रतिबंध लग रहा था। </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">मैगी के प्रतिबंधित होने के बाद नूडल्स का एक बड़ा बाजार देश से खाली हुआ। पहले नूडल्स के इस बाजार पर मैगी से टकराने वाली कोई बड़ी कंपन नहीं थी। मैगी पर प्रतिबंध के बाद नेपाल से वाई वाई नूडल्स भारत आया और बाबा रामदेव ने पातंजली से नूडल्स तैयार किया। लगभग आधा दर्जन नई कंपनियां बाजार में नूडल्स बेचने के लिए उतर आई। अब ग्राहकों के पास विकल्प बढ़ गया था। जब बाजार में मैगी थी तो आम तौर पर ग्राहक विकल्पों की तरफ देखते नहीं थे। </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">मैगी की वापसी में बड़ी भूमिका अमेरिका की जनसंपर्क कंपनी एपको की मानी जा रही है। एपको से पहले जनसंपर्क का काम नेसले के लिए एपिक देखता था। एपको वही कंपनी है जिसने नरेन्द्र मोदी की 2002 के साम्प्रदायिक दंगों वाली छवि में सुधार लाकर उन्हें विकास पुरुष के तौर पर स्थापित करने में मदद की। बताया जा रहा है कि मैगी को मुसीबत से निकालने के लिए एपको ने श्रीलंका से अपनी कर्मचारी शिवानी हेगड़े को विशेष तौर से इस काम के लिए भारत बुलाया। </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ताजा खबर यह है कि मैगी के सभी छह प्रकार के 90 नमूनों में लेड सुरक्षित मात्रा में पाया गया। तीन प्रयोगशालाआंे में मैगी ने सभी परीक्षाएं पास कर ली है। मुम्बई उच्च न्यायालय ने मैगी के पक्ष में अपनी बात कही है। अब कर्नाटक और गुजरात की सरकार ने उसके बाद मैगी से प्रतिबंध हटाने का निर्णय ले लिया है। </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">मैगी की वापसी का हमें स्वागत करना चाहिए लेकिन उत्पाद की गुणवत्ता से किसी तरह के समझौते के लिए हमें तैयार नहीं होना चाहिए। मैगी को बाजार में लाने में एपको की भूमिका को लेकर कई तरह के सवाल सोशल मीडिया में उठ रहे हैं। यह बात भी आई कि मैगी क्या बाजार में उस उत्पाद को भी ला सकता है जो पुराने स्टॉक का है और किसी कारण वश जिसे अब तक नष्ट नहीं किया गया।</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">भारत में गुणवत्ता नियंत्रण रखने वाली संस्थाओं को खाद्य सामग्रियों के नमूनों की नियमित जांच करानी चाहिए। इस बात का भी ख्याल रखना चाहिए कि नमूना किसी एक जगह से बार बार इकट्ठा किया गया ना हो। उन्हंे नमूना अलग अलग जगहों से इकट्ठा करना चाहिए। </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">यह भी सुनिश्चित होना चाहिए कि यदि कोई कंपनी खाने पीने की सामग्री में मिलावट करती हुई या ग्राहकों के सेहत से खिलवाड़ करती हुई पाई जाती है तो उसके खिलाफ कड़ी से कड़ी कार्यवायी होगी। जब एक कंपनी पर प्रतिबंध लगे और छह महीने बाद वह बाजार में इस तरह उतर आए जैसे कुछ हुआ नहीं था फिर समाज के बीच एक गलत संदेश जाता है। जब कंपनी के पिछे एक बहुराष्ट्रीय जनसंपर्क कंपनी हो तो यह संदेह और गहरा हो जाता है।</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">अब नूडल्स को लेकर भारत में उपभोक्ता के पास विकल्प है। जरूरत है कि वह सोच समझ कर खरीददारी करे क्योंकि हम सब जानते हैं सावधानी हटी, दुर्घटना घटी।</span><br />
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-69352449081057671812015-10-28T08:51:00.000-04:002015-10-28T08:51:09.110-04:00किसानों को बेहतर दाम है दाल संकट का हल<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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बहुसंख्यक आबादी वाले हमारे देश में प्रोटीन के सबसे बड़े स्रोत दाल की प्रति
व्यक्ति उपलब्धता में लगातार कमी आई है</i></b></span></div>
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<span lang="HI" style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><b><i>दाल</i></b> की कीमतों में एक साल के
भीतर डेढ़ सौ फीसदी तक की बढ़ोतरी ने देश में सियासी पारे को आसमान पर पहुंचा दिया
है। दाल केंद्र की एनडीए सरकार के लिए वही कर रही है जो प्याज की कीमतें पिछली कई
सरकारों के लिए कर चुकी हैं। ऐसा नहीं है कि दाल की कीमतें अचनाक 60-70 रुपये
प्रति किलो के 200 रुपये प्रति किलो को पार कर गई। इसके पीछे जहां देश में कृषि
उत्पादन को लेकर नीतिगत विफलता है वहीं जमाखोरों और दाल निर्यातक देशों ने इस
मोर्चे पर आग में घी का काम किया है। </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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भले ही हम हरित क्रांति के चलते खाद्यान्न निर्यातक देश बन गये हों लेकिन देश में
दाल के उत्पादन में हम लगातार फिसड्डी बने रहे हैं। शाकाहारी बहुसंख्यक आबादी वाले
हमारे देश में प्रोटीन के सबसे बड़े स्रोत दाल की प्रति व्यक्ति उपलब्धता में
लगातार कमी आई है। साठ के दशक में देश में प्रति व्यक्ति 65 ग्राम दाल प्रति दिन
उपलब्ध थी लेकिन अब यह आधे से भी कम होकर मात्र 32 ग्राम प्रति व्यक्ति प्रतिदिन
रह गई है। उत्पादन के मामले में 200 लाख
टन के आंकड़े को पार नहीं कर पाते हैं और हर साल 30 से 50 लाख टन दाल का आयात करते
हैं। देश में करीब ढाई करोड़ हैक्टेयर में दाल का उत्पादन होता है लेकिन इसमें में
20 फीसदी से भी कम सिंचित क्षेत्रफल है और दाल हमेशा एक उपेक्षित फसल की तरह बनी
रही है। पिछले साल देश में कमजोर मानसून रहा और दाल का उत्पादन 2013-14 के 192.5
लाख टन के मुकाबले 2014-15 में घटकर 172
लाख टन रह गया। इसके बाद चालू साल में भी मानसून खराब रहा और इस साल (2015-16) के
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साल करीब 50 लाख टन दाल का आयात किया गया था तो इस साल यह आयात 70 लाख टन तो होना
ही चाहिए था ताकि आपूर्ति को पिछले साल के स्तर पर बरकरार रखा जा सके। और यहीं पर
बड़ी चूक हुई है। खास बात यह है कि विश्व में भारत दालों का सबसे बड़ा उत्पादक,
आयातक और उपभोक्ता तीनों है। विश्व में करीब सात करोड़ टन दालों का उत्पादन होता
है और इसमें करीब डेढ़ करोड़ टन का ही वैश्विक कारोबार होता है। यानी इस साल अकेले
भारत ही इसमें से आधे का आयातक हो सकता है। ऐसे में दाम बढ़ना ही था।</span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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मजबूत लॉबी है और उनकी एसोसिएशन है। जब सरकार को पता था कि इस साल आपूर्ति का संकट
है तो समय से दाल आयात की रणनीति क्यों नहीं बनाई गई। साथ ही देश में कमजोर
उत्पादन का फायदा निर्यातकों और घरेलू आयातकों ने उठाया। वैश्विक बाजार में अरहर
दाल की कीमत करीब तीन गुना बढ़कर 2000 डॉलर प्रति टन को पार कर गई। इसी तरह उड़द
और मूंग की कीमत भी दो गुना से ज्यादा हो गई। हम दालों का आयात म्यामार, दक्षिण
अफ्रीका, कनाडा और आस्ट्रेलिया से करते हैं। दिलचस्प बात यह है कि वहां भी हमारे
देश के कई ब़ड़े कारोबारी सक्रिय हैं। अगर सरकारी एजेंसियां बेमौसम बारिश से रबी
फसल के खराब होने के साथ ही दाल आयात के लिए सक्रिय हो जाती तो यह संकट पैदा नहीं
होता। अब दो हजार और पांच हजार टन के आयात की सरकारी विज्ञप्तियों का कोई असर
बाजार पर नहीं हो रहा है। रही सही कमी जमाखोरों और बड़े रिटेल कारोबारियों ने पूरी
कर दी। सभी ने कार्टेल की तरह कीमतों में इजाफा किया क्योंकि बाजार में दाल तो
उपलब्ध रही लेकिन कीमतें अप्रत्याशित रूप से बढ़ती चली गई।</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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की कीमतों को कम करने के लिए क्या कदम उठाये.एक्सपोर्ट पर प्रतिबंध लगाया और फ्यूचर
ट्रेडिंग रोक लगाई गई। इंपोर्ट पर लगने वाली ड्यूटी को जीरो कर दिया।</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #464646; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">500 </span><span lang="HI" style="color: #333333; font-family: Mangal; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">करोड़ रुपए
के प्राइस स्टैबिलाइजेशन फंड के जरिये सब्सिडी दी। </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="HI" style="color: #333333; font-family: Mangal; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">जमाखोरों और
कालाबाजारी पर लगाम लगाने की कवायद की गई।</span><span lang="HI" style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="HI" style="color: #333333; font-family: Mangal; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">स्टॉक होल्डिंग लिमिट लागू कर राज्यों को जमाखोरों के खिलाफ कार्रवाई का
अधिकार दिया। लेकिन यह कदम देर से उठाये जाने के साथ ही केवल तात्कालिक राहत वाले
ही कदम हैं। इसके स्थाई हल को लेकर सरकार की नीयत साफ नहीं रही है।</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span lang="HI" style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">असल में हम लगातार दालों के घाटे को बढ़ाते जा रहे हैं। इसकी वजह उत्पादन
में बढ़ोतरी नहीं होना है। दिलचस्प बात यह है कि सरकार कह रही है कि वह दालों का
बफर स्टॉक बनाएगी। यह स्टॉक आयात से बनेगा। संकट को दीर्घकालिक रूप से हल करने के
लिए यह सरकार का एकदम गलत कदम है। वैश्विक स्तर पर इस समय तमाम कृषि उत्पादों
गेहूं, चावल, चीनी, कपास की कीमतें रिकॉर्ड निचले स्तर पर चल रही हैं लेकिन दाल
में आग लगी हुई है। बेहतर होगा कि हम दालों का रकबा बढ़ाएं। इस साल किसान बासमती
धान परमल धान की कीमत पर बेचने को मजबूर हैं। गन्ना किसानों का दस हजार करोड़
रुपये से ज्यादा का बकाया है। इन किसानों को दाल उत्पादन के लिए तैयार किया जा
सकता है क्योंकि यह फसलें सिंचित क्षेत्र में हो रही है। दालों को सिचिंत क्षेत्र
में लाने से उत्पादकता मौजूदा 750 किलो प्रति हैक्टेयर से बढ़कर दो टन प्रति
हैक्टेयर तक जा सकती है। हैदराबाद स्थित इक्रीसेट के सेंटर ने दालों की कई
हाइब्रिड प्रजातियां विकसित की हैं जिनकी उत्पादकता भी अधिक है और इनकी रोग रोधी
क्षमता भी ज्यादा है। लेकिन सरकार को किसानों को आश्वस्त करना होगा कि दाल की
सरकारी खरीद होगी और वह भी बेहतर समर्थन मूल्य पर। ऐसा सरकार नहीं कर सकी है। चालू
खरीफ सीजन (2015-16) के लिए सरकार ने अरहर और उड़द के समर्थन मूल्य में केवल 75
रुपये का इजाफा किया और 200 रुपये का बोनस देकर इसे 4425 रुपये प्रति क्विंटल किया
है। इसी तरह मूंग के समर्थन मूल्य में केवल 50 रुपये की बढ़ोतरी कर 200 रुपये बोनस
के साथ इसे 4850 रुपये प्रति क्विंटल किया है। वहीं रबी 2014-15 में चना का सर्मथन
मूल्य केवल 75 रुपये बढ़ाकर 3175 रुपये और मसूर का समर्थन मूल्य 125 रुपये बढ़कार
3075 रुपये प्रति क्विंटल किया था। लेकिन इन सबके लिए उपभोक्ता 150 से 200 रुपये
प्रति किलो तक चुका रहा है। बेहतर होगा कि सरकार तुरंत दालों का समर्थन मूल्य
बढ़ाकर किसानों को प्रोत्साहित करे। अगर
इस समय हम 130 रुपये किलो की आयातित अरहर दाल के लिए व्यापारियों और विदेशी
किसानों की जेब भर रहे हैं तो घरेलू किसानों के जरिये क्यों नहीं इस संकट का हल
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-40621032148987220872015-10-21T05:44:00.003-04:002015-10-21T05:47:13.826-04:00Time to re-revitalize RTI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> <i> </i></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>SANJU VERMA</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>the Act now definitely needs a second revolution to revive the old fervour with which the RTI was first initiated.</i></span></span></h3>
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Information) Act entering into 10 years of its existence in 2015, it is an
appropriate time to analyse its the efficacy and performance on the ground and
make a judgment. As the Act came into being following a long and sustained
civil society activism, it began very well impacting people’s life very
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It heralded a
new era of transparency and accountability in the country’s public life,
specially matters pertaining to the governments at all levels- Centre, states
and local self-government institutions. A number of significant disclosures
were forced by the RTI, including the information regarding 2-G spectrum
allocations and Commonwealth Games and so on.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Interestingly,
the benefits of Act spread like fire in the jungle among the educated and
otherwise empowered city dwellers. Most importantly, it led to the demand for
several other equally important rights like the right to employment guarantee,
the right to education and the right to food security. The RTI has had the
effect of slackening the tight hold of the government and its officials on both
information and instrumentalities of the state.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The decade
following 2005 witnessed the slow withering away of the Central government and
the RTI surely played a role in that unravelling — by increasing irreverence,
scrutiny and through the critiquing of its authority among the general public.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">However, of
late, one witnesses a waning of fervour even though the number of RTI
applications has been growing. Obviously, from the beginning, civil society
activists and the media have been more enthusiastic about the RTI than civil
servants, who have traditionally used information as the source of their power
and mystique. The civil service’s indifference and hostility towards the RTI
has not diminished over the years; if at all, it has only increased although
many government servants, no doubt mostly disgruntled, have also been most
successful users of RTI, largely seeking information to fix their own cases and
fix those they did not like. Ordinary citizens mostly seek personal information
regarding various services otherwise denied to them by the system, be it a
passport or a ration card or various commonly required certificates.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since disclosure
of such information poses little threat to the system, the public authorities
share such information relatively easily. It is the contentious or potentially
controversial information that the public authorities have been very wary of
disclosing. Thus, as far as personal information goes or information of an
innocuous kind, the RTI has been a success. But as a tool to inculcate the
value of transparency, the RTI has neither sunk deep into the government nor
among most of the citizenry.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Meanwhile,
almost 300 cases of murder, assault and harassment relating to information
activism have been recorded in the ten years since the RTI Act came into force.
<st1:place w:st="on">Maharashtra</st1:place> has emerged as the most dangerous
state for RTI activists in the country.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">While there is
no official data on RTI-related crime, figures compiled by the Delhi-based
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative found 230 cases of assault and harassment,
49 murders, and four suicides, over the past ten years.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CHRI data found
that Maharashtra has double the number of cases (murders, attacks, harassment)
than Gujarat, which comes in second followed by Uttar Pradesh, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Delhi</st1:place></st1:city>, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Maharashtra also
has the highest number of murders followed by Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, <st1:place w:st="on">Bihar</st1:place>, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">States with
highest number of RTI-Related Murders from October (2005-2015)</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Maharashtra</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 10</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gujarat</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 7</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Uttar Pradesh 6</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bihar</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 5</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Karnataka 4</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thus the Act now
definitely needs a second revolution to revive the old fervour with which the
RTI was first initiated. As far as laws go, the RTI Act has been the best thing
to happen after the Constitution of India; we must make it work.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-41387769896991975112015-10-14T15:28:00.003-04:002015-10-14T15:28:43.373-04:00 How many more farmers should commit suicide for govt to wake up?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19pt;">Gee
Yezdi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #393939; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #393939; font-family: Georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">There is no single reason for all these suicides. Drought and access to credit and debt traps are causes of the menace. The government should evolve region-specific policies to address these issues</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19pt;"><b><i>F</i></b>armers
suicides in </span><st1:country-region style="background-color: white; color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19pt;">
have ceased to make headlines. Barring a few efforts by individuals and civil
society, there has not been any serious initiative to find a permanent solution
to the problem from the Centre and state government’s side. According to </span><st1:place style="background-color: white; color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19pt;" w:st="on">Maharashtra</st1:place><span style="background-color: white; color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19pt;"> government’s figures, in this year, the
suicide count in during January-June period was 1,300 cases.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19pt;">This means in six months, the farmer suicide
toll has already touched 66 per cent of the 1,981 cases recorded in the entire
year of 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19.0pt; font-weight: normal;">When
the Narendra Modi government took over, there was great hope. At least in some
corners, this hope is fading. While he has announced many schemes such as
Digital India, Skill <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
and Make in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
no targeted scheme was initiated with an aim to improve the condition of the
farm sector.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Farmers
suicide is only a manifestation of a deeper crisis in agriculture. However, I
don’t agree with the general refrain of Modi baitors that first fight poverty,
then Digital India. They should remember that this is also an anti-poverty
initiative and all these efforts should go hand in hand.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19.0pt; font-weight: normal;">But
no one can deny that the focus agriculture sector should get is not getting
from the current dispensation. The earlier dispensation was no better, though
Rahul Gandhi has been beating his breast ever since Congress-led UPA was ousted
from power.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19.0pt; font-weight: normal;">There
is no single reason for all these suicides. Drought and access to credit and
debt traps are causes of the menace. The government should evolve
region-specific policies to address these issues. Institutional finances are
not adequately available and minimum support price fixed by the government do
not reach the poorest farmer.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19.0pt; font-weight: normal;">So
the problems are plenty. Many farmers who undertake cultivation are not real
owners of the land. But now we have to look at solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Sometime
ago, there was a programme on a successful Kerala farmer who in his plot of
0.35 acres used to about Rs 35,000-40,000 a month and support a family of four.
In his miniscule plot, he had everything, he has cattle, goats, poultry,
rabbits, vegetables and other plants. He used to sell bananas, coconuts and so
on.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Although
a farmer in Vidarbha, the epicentre of suicides, and a farmer in Kerala live in
separate climatic zones, the idea can be replicated. The farmers in these
trouble zones should be encouraged to cultivate multi crops such as coconut,
turmeric, pineapple, and banana, papaya. Other options like poultry could be
tried and the government support. This works in both ways it will not make a
farmer fully dependent on one particular crop and also he has an alternative
source of income.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The
government has tried special economic zones for industrial development.
Similarly, it should promote special agricultural zones, where only farming and
agriculture related activity should be allowed.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Technology
should be taken to farm fields. The prime minister has spoken about it but so
far there has not been any concerted effort to achieve this. Besides, we should
have a mechanism on the lines of the national disaster management body for
agriculture. There should be a relook at the water management efforts. Also,
using technology market connectivity for farmers can be established
cost-effectively and transparently.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Ultimately,
we have to take whatever it takes to help farmers because it is not only in
their interest but in nation’s interest.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-51474222974182840402015-10-07T14:10:00.002-04:002015-10-07T14:14:15.585-04:00Fashion posing serious threat to planet earth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Lakshmi Singh</i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><i>How can the fashion industry
become more sustainable is the most important question that has been a issue of
major debate these days</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The last post spoke of the
environmentalists going against the massive project of linking of two major
rivers Krishna and <st1:place w:st="on">Godavari</st1:place> as disastrous
citing deforestation and upheaval for large number of ethnic communities as a
major concern.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The environmentalists need to
look at the amount of damage the fashion Industry is causing to our environment
today. The globe is facing a serious
threat in the form of fashion today as its access to water is essential for
cotton cultivation, textile dyeing and finishing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">According to WWF, it can take
up to 2,700 litres to produce the cotton needed to make a single t-shirt. It
doesn’t end with that alone. The final operation of all dyeing process involves
washing in baths to remove excesses of the original or hydrolyzed dyes not
fixed to the fibre. In all these, it is
estimated that approximately 10-50% of the dyes used in the dyeing process are
lost, and end up in the effluent, i.e, contaminating the environment with about
one million tons of these compounds. As a consequence, these industries produce
coloured waste water with a high organic load, which can contribute enormously
to the environmental pollution of surface water and treatment plants if not properly treated
before disposal into the water resources. The ingestion of water contaminated
with textile dyes can cause serious damage to the health of humans and of other
living organisms, due to the toxicity, highlighting mutagenicity of its
components . Approach the massive Orathupalayam Dam by road. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Within 2 miles of the dam,
the lush rice paddies, coconut palms and banana trees that have characterized
this part of southern <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
suddenly give way to a parched, bright red landscape, dotted only with scrub
forest. The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Noyyal</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>, which used to be
clean and clear, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">now runs foamy and green,
polluted with the toxic runoff of the titanic textile industry 20 miles to the
west, in Tirupur.At first glance, Tirupur, “<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Knit</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype></st1:place>,”
appears to be an exemplar of how
globalization can improve the developing world. The garment industry here in
Tamil Nadu earns billions of dollars annually, employs about a half-million
people and exports clothes to <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Chances are good that if you have a Gap, Tommy Hilfiger or Wal-Mart T-shirt
marked “Made in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>,”
it came from here. Sadly enough, this
garment industry is responsible for disturbing the ecological balance.There is
an urgent need for action on this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">How can the fashion industry
become more sustainable is the most important question that has been a issue of
major debate these days. The industry needs events like the Copenhagen Fashion
Summit, which, since it launched in 2009, has become the world’s largest event
on sustainability in fashion, with more than 1,000 participants. Here, leading
international industry players can share best practice with their peers
and to create the business models
required to tackle the urgent sustainability challenges facing our planet. From
governments and global brands to princesses and pioneers, each attendee had one
thing in common: the vision of a sustainable future for fashion. One must try
and replicate the efforts of GOONJ, an NGO in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> whose focus is to turn huge
old material into valuable resource with the large scale civic participation.
It was the first to highlight clothing as a basic but unaddressed need which
deserves a place on the development agenda.Goonj were the first NGO to reposition discard of urban households as
a development resource for villages, moving away from its age old stance as a
charitable object. They annually deal with over 1000 tonnes of material, from
clothes, school material to old doors, windows and computers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> GOONJ has set precedent in handling massive
disaster wastage right from Gujarat
earthquake to Tsunami, <st1:place w:st="on">Bihar</st1:place> floods of 2008,
Andhra floods and Uttarakhand floods etc. This is where it works on a lot of
rejected material sent by people and other agencies. Over 2.5 million sanitary
pads produced out of waste cloth and reached to villages/slums across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> as a
viable solution and powerful tool to open up taboo subject like menses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Over 3,00,000 Kgs of throw
away waste cloth converted into traditional mattress/quilt (Sujni) as large
scale income generation activity in villages.
To</span><span style="font-family: "Kruti Dev 010"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">lead the charge towards solving global environmental,
social and ethical challenges, Sensitising the young minds through awareness
campaigns to opt for only recycled brands would go a long way in saving us from
the threat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b><span style="color: #222222;"> आशीष</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">कुमार</span><span style="color: #222222;"> ‘</span><span style="color: #222222;">अंशु</span></b></i></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>’</b></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को </span></i></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">बनाने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">अर्थ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">किसी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">तीसरे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">हरित</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">क्रांति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">मांग</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">नहीं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">हरित</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">क्रांति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">इसका</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">अर्थ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">नहीं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">लगाना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">चाहिए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">क्योंकि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">वहां</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">उत्पादन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">साथ </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">साथ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">लागत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">भी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">बढ़ी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">थी।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">बाद</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">समय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">पंजाब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">हरित</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">क्रांति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">साइड</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">एफेक्ट</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">भी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">पूरे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">देश</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">ने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal; font-weight: normal;">देखे</span></i></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पिछले</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कई</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सालों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जुड़ी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खबर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अखबारों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">छपती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">या</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खबरिया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">चैनलों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तौर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कर्ज</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तले</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दबे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खबर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">होती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">या</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">फिर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आत्महत्या</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खबरों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पाते</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हैं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उड़िसा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">महाराष्ट्र</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आन्ध्र</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">प्रदेश</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आत्महत्या</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">स्थिति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लेकिन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कभी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खबरिया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">चैनलों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नजर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नहीं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जाती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वजह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिसाल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सकते</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हैं।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">समाज</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लिए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लिए।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ऐसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">समय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मीडिया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">निदान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सुझाना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">चाहिए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">समस्याएं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गिनाने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">व्यस्त</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सिर्फ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मीडिया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दोष</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">क्यों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">देना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जुड़े</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तमाम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सेमिनार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वर्कशॉप</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सिम्पोजियम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वक्ता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दुर्दशा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ही</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बात</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रहे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हैं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">फिर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सरकार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कोसते</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कोसते</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सभा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">समापन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जाता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लेकर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">देश</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बीच</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">समझ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पिछले</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तीन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दशकों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उससे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">साबित</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हुआ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">करना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">घाटे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सौदा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इसी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">परिणाम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बड़ी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">संख्या</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पलायन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पलायन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सिलसिला</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रूका</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नहीं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जारी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">समय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कैसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बनाया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जाए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इसके</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">विकल्प</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उपाय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">राष्ट्रव्यापी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बहस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">शुरुआत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जाए।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वैसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यहां</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बताना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जरूरी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बनाने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अर्थ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तीसरे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हरित</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">क्रांति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मांग</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नहीं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हरित</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">क्रांति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इसका</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अर्थ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नहीं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लगाना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">चाहिए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">क्योंकि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वहां</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उत्पादन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">साथ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">-</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">साथ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लागत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बढ़ी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">थी।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बाद</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">समय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पंजाब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हरित</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">क्रांति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">साइड</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एफेक्ट</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पूरे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">देश</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">देखे।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">प्रकार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पंजाब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गांव</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गांव</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कैंसर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पीड़ित</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हुए।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">प्रकार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कर्ज</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तले</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दबे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जमीन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बेची</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मालिक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मजदूर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हुए।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इसलिए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जिस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">क्रांति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बात</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यहां</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रही</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आप</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">क्रांति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नाम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सकते</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हैं।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">23 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जुलाई</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> 2015 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">देहरादून</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इंडिया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">फाउंडेशन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">फॉर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रुरल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">डेवलपमेन्ट</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">स्टडिज</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पत्रिका</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> ‘</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सोपान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">स्टेप</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">’ </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिलकर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">विकल्प</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उपाय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">विषय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अकादमिक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बहस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">शुरूआत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आयोजन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पश्चिमी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उत्तर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">प्रदेश</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">साथ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">साथ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उत्तराखंड</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दिल्ली</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पंजाब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हरियाणा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हिमाचल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">प्रदेश</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हिस्सा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लिया।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">विषय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उत्तराखंड</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुख्यमंत्री</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हरीश</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रावत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आकर्षक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">विषय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बताया।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वक्तव्य</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मंे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">श्री</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रावत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">स्वीकार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तकनीक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">विकास</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दौर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नहीं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पाएं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हैं।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लिए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इसमें</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">निवेश</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जाना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जरूरी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">श्री</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रावत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कहा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">- </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कृषि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">विकास</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> 4.5 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">प्रतिशत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कैसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बनाए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रखा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सकता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कृषि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नीति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नियंताआंे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सामने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सबसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बड़ी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">चुनौती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जिस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">प्रकार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पूरे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">देश</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भूमिगत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">स्तर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लगातार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नीचे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गिर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रहा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिट्टी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पोषक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तत्वों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कमी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रही</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ऐसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बेबस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">होकर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">छोटी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">छोटी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मदद</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लिए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सरकार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तरफ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">टकटकी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लगाए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">देख</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रहा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">स्थिति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वक्त</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">निकाला</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सकता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उसकी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बने।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हाल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> ‘</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इंडियन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एग्रीकल्चरल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक्सपोर्ट</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">क्लाइम्बस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">टू</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रिकॉर्ड</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हाई</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">’ </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नाम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आई</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रिपोर्ट</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बताती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भारत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कृषि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">निर्यात</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> 2003 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> 5 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बिलियन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">डॉलर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">था</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> 2013 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बढ़कर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> 39 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बिलियन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">डॉलर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गया।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यदि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यूएस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">डिपार्टमेन्ट</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ऑफ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एग्रीकल्चर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">द्वारा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जारी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गई</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रिपोर्ट</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गई</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जानकारी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सही</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जीवन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">स्तर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बढ़े</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">निर्यात</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बाद</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कोई</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सुधार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">देखने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">क्यों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नहीं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिला</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बनाने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लिए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जरूरी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">करने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पहले</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जमीन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उसकी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिट्टी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">समझे।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जमीन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भौगोलिक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">परिस्थिति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">समझे।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उसके</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बाद</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लिए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">योजना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बनाए।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भारतीय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">साल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">साल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ही</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तरह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">करने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अभ्यस्त</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आदत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बदलनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">होगी।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उत्तराखंड</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बात</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जाए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">राज्य</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लिए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भौगोलिक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">परिस्थितियां</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कहीं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नहीं।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">परिस्थिति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हाई</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एल्टीट्यूड</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अच्छी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सकती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">परिस्थिति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उगने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वाले</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">फलो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सब्जियों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अन्य</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उत्पादों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बाजार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भारी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मांग</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ऐसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ऐसी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यहां</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपनाना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">चाहिए।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उत्तराखंड</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पर्वतीय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">प्रोत्साहन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अभाव</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तोड़</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रही</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जबकि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पर्वतीय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">राज्य</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भारी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लाभ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सकता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रोजगार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">भी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिलेगा।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बनाने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">संबंध</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इफको</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">विपणन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">निदेशक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रॉय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कहा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अधिक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यूरिया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस्तेमाल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वजह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिट्टी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उर्वरा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">शक्ति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लगातार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रही</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लेकर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सावधानी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बरतने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जरूरत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">श्री</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रॉय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तरफ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बताया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कि</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिट्टी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नियमित</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जांच</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कराएं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">और</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिट्टी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जिंक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सल्फेट</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जैसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पदार्थों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस्तेमाल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">करें।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सस्ता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">होने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वजह</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अपने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेतों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यूरिया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस्तेमाल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अधिक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">करता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">श्री</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">राय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अनुसार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सरकार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">यूरिया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सब्सिडी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">करके</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जिंक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सल्फेट</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उपलब्ध</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कराना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">चाहिए।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">श्री</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">राय</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">अनुसार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उनकी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सहकारी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">संस्था</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">विदेशी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कंपनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">संबंध</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बातचीत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रही</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जल्द</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ही</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कंपनी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">के</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">साथ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिलकर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उनकी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सहकारी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">संस्था</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसानों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सस्ते</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दामों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उपलब्ध</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कराएगी।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">डेमस्क</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गुलाब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कैमोलिन</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जैपनिकज</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मिंट</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लेमनग्रास</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जैसे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दर्जनों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सुूगंध</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">फैलाने</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">वाले</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पौधे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हैं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जिनकी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">मुनाफे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">खेती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सकती</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">डेमस्क</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गुलाब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ही</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">बात</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">करें</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">झाड़ियों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उगता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उसके</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तेल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">की</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">कीमत</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">चार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लाख</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">रुपए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">प्रति</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किलो</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">डेमस्क</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गुलाब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उम्दा</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दर्जे</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">इत्र</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तैयार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किया</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जाता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है।</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">चलते</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">चलते</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सामली</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> (</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पश्चिमी</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">उत्तर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">प्रदेश</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">) </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">से</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आए</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">किसान</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">का</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सवाल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">- </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लीटर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तेल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">जब</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">नौ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">सौ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दस</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ग्राम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">तेल</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">आता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हैं</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">फिर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">लीटर</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दूध</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">में</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">गौ</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पालकों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">को</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">एक</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">हजार</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">ग्राम</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">दूध</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">क्यों</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">देना</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">पड़ता</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Mangal;">है</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-75922856171262613182015-09-24T11:11:00.001-04:002015-09-24T11:11:08.519-04:00Linking of Krishna & Godavari <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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project citing deforestation and upheaval for large number of ethnic
communities.</span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt;">L</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">inking of two major
rivers in Andhra Pradesh, Krishna and Godavari is definitely a historic feat
achieved just few days back.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This revives two
centuries old debate on national rivers linking plan that was mooted by British
engineer Arthur Cotton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">While eminent engineer
KL Rao gave life to this mega plan, key issue here is to judiciously utilize
water resources in a sustainable way to fuel a double-digit growth oriented
Indian economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Linking of Krishna and
Godavari was aggressively pursued by former chief minister NT Rama Rao and
later pushed by YS Rajashekhar Reddy. With Reddy’s death in a mid-air
helicopter crash also came to end this mega plan to bring water to parched
Rayalaseema districts and widen the irrigation Krishna delta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Last one year was
crucial in the linking of these two mega rivers that are virtual lifeline for
people in AndhraPradesh that alternatively faced droughts and flooding of
coastal areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Credit goes to present
chief minister Chandra Babu Naidu who doggedly pursued the linking plan beating
all deadlines and apprehensions from the engineering community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Krishna and Godavari
linking also raked up the environment-related debate of destroying the
river-specific aquatic life, abnormal lifting up of water label causing serious
damage to the plants root systems, displacement of ethnic communities and
bio-diversity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">At the same time, it’s a
fact that over 1.3 million hectares of farmlands would get water for at least
two cropping seasons in a year thereby leading to economic empowerment of
millions of farmers’ families. It will also add to food security, emancipation
of people in the region from clutches of poverty and gives a big boost to
economic growth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In fact, Krishna and
Godavari linking have overtaken the bringing together of rivers, Ken in Madhya
Pradesh with Betwa in Uttar Pradesh. Nearly 40-years after it has been
conceived and over Rs 7000 crores invested, the two rivers would be linked in
three months from now. To begin with the project will provide water to nearly
half a million hectares farmlands and also generate power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Several
environmentalists are already up in arms against this massive project citing
deforestation and upheaval for large number of ethnic communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">When second phase of Ken
– Betwa link is completed along with Damanganga - Pinjal and Par – Tapi -
Narmada links in Gujarat and Maharashtra, larger benefits are bound to accrue
to the economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">When completed in
phases, the national river linking plan has potential to extend irrigation
benefits to nearly 140 – 170 million hectares</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><s><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">and</span></s><s><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></s><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">lead to generation of 34000 MW power, if one were to go by
National Water Development Agency (NWDA). The mega plan includes linking 30
rivers with massive investment of over Rs 560,000 crore in ten years from now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">River linking was the
signature project of first NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The
national rivers linking plan was put together and vetted by an expert panel
headed by then union minister Suresh Prabhu. The present government headed by
Prime Minister Modi had recently set up a special committee to oversee
rivers-linking plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">While the rivers linking
plan is grandiose, one needs to balance the development needs with environment
sustainability in long term. Also, resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced
communities whose villages are likely to submerge in this larger plan need
immediate attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Experience in rivers
linking across Europe and US may serve as benchmark for our own national
project. National level consultation, taking along the communities and then
ensuring spread of benefits maximum population would definitely be a challenge
but not impossible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-26362383944434569232015-09-22T10:19:00.004-04:002015-09-22T10:19:51.750-04:00Access denied<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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lags behind on health goals such as maternal and infant mortality and </i></div>
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<i>sanitation, the basic premise for prevention of communicable
diseases<br /></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>M</i></b></span>any in the country believed that <st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place>'s economic progress so far
has failed to bring about the desired improvement in health services in the
country. The gap between the rich and the poor in terms of access to health
services is most glaring, even bigger than that in the field of education. This
reality to some extent has been accepted even by member of the newly
constituted NITI Aayog Bibek Debroy, who had recently remarked that the country
had lagged behind on health goals like maternal and infant mortality, as well
as sanitation, which is the basic premise for prevention of communicable
diseases. The communicable diseases account for more than 50 per cent of the
total illness in the country.</div>
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Surveys reveal that <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
lags behind even <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sri Lanka</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Nepal</st1:country-region> on many fronts including
infant mortality rate, child immunisation rate and even life expectancy. Even
as private urban tertiary care centres vie for global medical tourism, the
stark failure of basic public health services profiles the paradox of <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>'s health
system.</div>
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Even as <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> is
considered to be a global pharmacy hub for inexpensive generic drugs, the draft
National Health Policy put out recently informs that over 63 million Indians
face the threat of poverty each year due to unaffordable health care
expenditure. Huge inter-state disparities in health indicators testify to the
widely varying quality of health services across <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>.</div>
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The 2015 deadline for
meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets turned the spotlight on
the poorly performing health system. So there is an urgent need to resolutely
revamp the health system to make it capable of delivering the targets set by
the new health goal. So it is rightly said, "If we do not create the
future, the present extends itself."</div>
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Targets are desired
to be achieved by 2030, which include reduction in maternal mortality to less
than 70 per 100,000 live births (India is at 178 now); end preventable deaths
of newborns and under-five children; end the epidemics of HIV, TB, malaria and
neglected tropical diseases; reduce by one-third premature mortality from
non-communicable diseases (deaths before 70 years from cardiovascular and
chronic respiratory diseases, cancers and diabetes); halve deaths and injuries
from road traffic accidents; provide universal health coverage, including
financial risk protection, and access to essential medicines and vaccines to
all; universal access to sexual and reproductive health services; substantially
reduce harm from hazardous chemicals and pollution of air, water and soil.</div>
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Thus the target as
desired by the goal set by the UN, sets the agenda to make health as the core
of the development efforts. Even as <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>'s aspirational draft national
health policy document of 2015 awaits an uncertain fate, with health remaining
at the fringe of budgetary priorities, the SDG for health provides a road map
of what a caring society must aim to achieve for its people.</div>
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Can <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> do it?
Yes <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
can do with the right mix of investment, innovation and integrity. Public
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must rise, in central and state budgets, to invigorate
primary health services, strengthen district hospitals and expand the health
work force. Essential health services, drugs and diagnostics must be provided
without financial burden, through a system of universal coverage. Different
streams of health financing must be channelled into a single payer system that
procures quality care as a cashless service from a mix of providers. Several successful models exist across the
world to show that a fine balance of economy, efficiency and equity can be
achieved by health systems which are configured for universal health coverage.
The broad framework has to be common across states, with enough room for
context-specific modifications. No Indian should be denied needed health care
wherever he or she may reside, work or travel in the country.</div>
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Innovation, in the face of physician non-availability in
many rural areas and disorganised urban primary health services, calls for
technology-enabled nurse practitioners and community health workers to provide
frontline services and chronic continuous care in community settings. Auxiliary
nurse midwives, armed with android tablets configured with an array of
diagnostic tests and decision support systems, are now working in six districts
of <st1:state w:st="on">Jammu and Kashmir</st1:state>
to transform maternal and child health services. Mobile phones have become
powerful tools in the home management of diabetes and hypertension.
Telemedicine and mobile medical units are bridging distance to improve access.
As the role of allied health professionals is expanded, millions of young
persons, especially women, can be gainfully employed, invigorating both health
and the economy. Indian systems of healing too can help to reduce unmet health
care needs.</div>
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This action agenda requires political commitment to a vision
that values health as a societal imperative for accelerated, sustainable and
equitable development. It also calls for integrity in delivering that vision
through good governance which optimally utilises health system resources. This
involves rational and transparent priority setting, corruption free procurement
processes, standard management guidelines, robust regulatory systems and timely
monitoring and evaluation. The malaise of purchased seats in medical colleges
and the dubious role of councils that regulate health professional education
has been debated for long, even before Vyapam shocked the nation. It calls for
grit and guts on the part of policymakers to clean these Augean stables.</div>
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Moreover, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
has rightly been defined as a nation which lives in its villages and thus it
mirrors its economy and well being. Nation's development is essentially the
development of its people and so it is imperative for the government to make
human development an inseparable component of the overall well-being of
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<st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
bears the load of roughly 17.5 percent of the global population and one-fifth
of the world's share of all diseases and nutritional disorders. Apart from this, one cannot deny the fact
that <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
has achieved truckloads in advancing healthcare and overall health standards
over the past six decades.</div>
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Public financing of healthcare sector and budgeting schemes
for a healthy rural <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
is paramount. After all, access to healthcare is essentially dependent on how
healthcare has been financed. The Union budget for 2015-16 allocated no more
than Rs33,152 crores to finance the health sector. It is not that enough as it
is only about one percent of GDP.</div>
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proportion of public investments, the greater the access provided to crucial
healthcare services. It comes off as no surprise that a nation that spends only
a minuscule proportion of its total social sector expenditure on healthcare is
failing equity in access to very basic healthcare services vis-à-vis other developing
countries developing nations.</div>
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healthcare have been satisfactory. The "Swachch Bharat Abhiyan"
launched with much fanfare on October 2, 2014, which aims at attaining an
open-defecation-free <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
by October 2, 2019 is quite a welcome idea. It aims at providing hassle free
access to toilet facilities to all households in villages as also initiating
solid waste management activities at Panchayat level to augment hygiene.</div>
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disparities in budgetary allocations, disparities within and among states and
regions, there is an inevitable need to bring health services under the
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SOPANSTEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06567188064616581947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6143640011561704224.post-52033707146172164822015-08-05T10:02:00.002-04:002015-08-05T12:13:15.647-04:00National-level Sopan symposium on farming<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">The India Foundation for Rural Development Studies (Infords), which brings out Sopan Step monthly magazine, had inter-active session with experts to highlight the possibilities that existed to take advantage of the unique ecosystem particularly in hilly state of Uttarakhand to make farming profitable</span></i></b><br />
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organisation working to improve the lot of rural population organised a
national symposium in Dehradun to create awareness among farmers in the
surrounding areas the various options available to make farming profitable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as most part of the country dependent on the vagaries of weather. Sometimes
standing crop about to be harvested gets destroyed by floods, tornado, cloud
burst and the like in on time putting farmers into great difficulty making all
his labour, resources go waste. At time poor monsoon results in drought like
condition causing another kind of calamity. Sometimes pests attack making
farming a losing proposition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22.0pt;"><i>The India Foundation for
Rural Development Studies (Infords)</i>, which brings out <i>Sopan Step</i> monthly
magazine, had inter-active session with experts to highlight the possibilities
that existed to take advantage of the unique ecosystem particularly in hilly
state of Uttarakhand to make farming profitable. The symposium, the first of
its kind to have direct inter-action with farmers, was inaugurated by the state
Chief Minister Harish Rawat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22.0pt;">Experts who participated in
the symposium highlighted the options available for farmers to earn more money
taking advantage of the climate and terrain at the foothills of <st1:place w:st="on">Himalayas</st1:place>. Presently farmers go in for traditional
cultivation of rice and sugarcane, which do not make farming that profitable
because of the risks involved in the region. To mitigate the risks, the best
solution, the experts said, were to go for aromatic and medicinal plants
cultivation in between tradition a crop cultivation by adopting inter-cropping.
This will ensure additional income as some of thees plant are weather resistant
and do not interfere with main crop. Also these plants fetch more income as
they are in great demand and required special ecosystem, which is prevalent in
the region. There is also scope using a portion of their farm land to cultivate
fruits and vegetables, some of them exotic, as the area is ideally suited for
horticulture. As these being cash crops earnings go up substantially making
farming a losing venture now into a a profitable one. Dairy is another option
that could be looked at along with farming. In this part including western
Uttar Pradesh, selling milk by farmers is a taboo. This however needed to be
overcome by forming cooperatives as in Gujarat, Southern states and elsewhere
in the country to augment their income as pursuing only traditional farming do
not provide income stability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 22.0pt;">These are some small steps
that could be taken but farmers by and large particularly in this part of the
country are averse to deviating from tradition and this awareness campaign served as an eye opener and the
alternatives suggested brought about some changes in the thinking of farmers to
look at options available to make their farming sustainable and profitable. One
issue that cropped up was the Nilghai menace in the region, which destroy
standing crops resulting in all their efforts going waste in one go. To
overcome this problem chief minister promised to step up fencing of farm land
and he announced Rs 100 crore in the state budget this year. This may not be
adequate but a beginning has been made. The day long symposium too made a
beginning to make some of the farmers rethink their strategy to make it 'Munafe
ke kheti from the present Ghate ke Soudha.</span></div>
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is a need to link tradition and technology to save agriculture,” says CM <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A national-level symposium on <b>‘Making agriculture profitable:
Alternatives and solutions’</b> <b>(<i>Munafe ke kheti: Vikalp or Upay</i>),</b>
organized by <b>Sopan Step</b>, a bilingual
development magazine being brought out by <b>India
Foundation for Rural Development Studies (Infords</b>), was held at Dehradun on 23 July. Hon’ble Uttarakhand <b>Chief Minister Shri Harish Rawat</b> inaugurated
the function, in which Hon’ble <b>Minister
for</b> <b>Agriculture </b>, <b>Shri Harak Singh Rawat</b>, <b>Director (Marketing) IFFCO Shri A Roy,
Managing Trustee </b>and<b> senior
journalist Shri K A Badarinath, senior journalist Shri</b> <b>Harvir Singh Panwar</b>, Expert on <b>Bio
economy and agriculture value chain Shri</b>
<b>Vijay Sardana</b> and <b>Shri Vijay Uppal</b> also participated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Delivering the key note address, Chief
Minister Shri Harish Rawat said despite technological intervention, agriculture
has not become a profitable proposition. “Banks have been giving loans at lower
rates of 4 to 7%. They may be able to take the loan once. After that they
become debt-ridden. The problem is that we have failed to empower farmers,”
said Rawat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The chief minister said technology and
tradition should be linked. There is a need to promote traditional agriculture
in hilly areas, which will not only protect the ecology but provide income for
the farmers. He also talked about encouraging off-seasonal fruits and
vegetables. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">it's a great effort being made by media professionals and farmers cooperatives to bring more money for the farmers themselves. India Foundation for Rural Development Studies and 'Sopan Step' have taken the lead... Let's see where we go...</span><br />
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