Friday, April 13, 2007

Green Revolution ---2

India is galloping on its prowess of being a IT power house,but none of us recognise that agriculture the backbone of the indian economy is getting meek day by day.The rural urban divide is widening and villages are getting depleted. So I thought about this when i was alone in my home and some new Brain wrecking imaginations sprang up in my mind. I thought that why dont we establish ARTC ( Agriculture Research And training centre) across the villages of india .Such ARTCs should take care of the crop produce by the villages under their control,they can organise some farmer get to gethers to find the solution for farmers problems by fellow farmers itself ,and they could even expose farmers to the latest developments in Agriculture,Such ARTC's with a well established Labaratory and networking facilities could provide weather forecast to the farmers in the local areas. They should also take care of regulation of prices of vegetables and can even buy the crops from the farmers and sell them at the ARTC owned retail outlets in cities. Only Agriculture graduates should be employed in ARTC and each ARTC could have from 7-10 employees. So when such a system is implemented thousands of unemployed agriculture grads will find a job and it will also encourage the younger generation to opt for research in Agriculture and Rural management. ARTC could be implemented in a phased manner,at first in a few hundred villages then virtually across the villages of the country. Two panchayats may share an ARTC,Gandhiji said "THE FUTURE OF INDIA LIES IN ITS VILLAGES",so fellowmates dont look up at career only in IT,BT sectors,you have a lot to explore in the unexplored areas of ruralmanagement and agriculture which eventually provides us with food,think it over.................