Indian Agriculture business or service????

[mkalyan6484]

Hi Everyone, I am a new member to this group.

I have some questions in my mind. I want all of you to reflect on that...

1. India is 2nd largest agriculture producer but still we don't have sufficient amount to feed our people. Why??? Because everything is exported, without giving a thought for people of our country. Is profit is only important goal for all our businessman.
I know in business everyone always think of profit then of anything else but business without sharing profit is of no good.

I will appriciate comments from all members.

Thanks
Kalyan M

[aromedindia]

Agriculture is both business and service. Business in the sense that one earns money/bread and butter, and the service in the sense that farmers produce food without which one cant survive. The question that we are exporting at the cost of our people is not true. Exporting what? Except sugar and rice we don’t produce enough which can earn considerable foreign exchange. Rather importing pulses and edible oils that are costing the country dearly. The overall trade balance is also not in favour of India. There is huge gap between export and import-leading to a negative balance of 90billion US dollar during 07-08. The only solution lies to the problem is to improve the productivity of our land without affecting the soil health and environment. This will call for greater Scientific and Technological inputs and capital investment. And that is happening. Today educated and trained human resource has a liking for agriculture as their carrier-may it be Engineer, Doctor, MBAs, Agriculture graduates and post graduates. This is very positive development for overall growth and development of this important sector. And will lead to greater and quick flow of knowledge. Capital flow is also taking place at a faster rate. See the number of people/industries interested in purchasing agriculture land to set up different kinds of enterprises. Indian industries in some sectors, using the raw material from natural source, are facing problem in getting raw materials due to over exploitation of resources. Now such industries are also venturing in to agriculture to ensure sustained supply of raw materials, necessitating a huge capital investment.
We all are optimistic for a changed Indian agric. senerio,in near future.
aromedindia@gmail.com

[mkalyan6484]

Thank you very much for your reply but is it possible for you to provide more insight on improving trends. In some way you agreed to my comments that indian exports are costing our nation heavily.

Is your org doing something spl in this regards? I will be happy to know abt "aromedindia".

Thanks
Kalyan M

[manojsinghchandel]

We are not only the largest producer but largest consumers also and as far as agribusiness in concered more than 65 % of the population is dependant on agriculture directly and indirectly. Exporting agro. commodities is not a problem, problem lies in improving productivity of the crops. Till now our extension system was weak but now Govt. and Non-Govt. sector is making an effort to improve the productivity of the crops through different schemes and programs but monitoring and evaluating the impact of these programs needs to be ascertain. We have the best agroclimatic condition of the world where most of the crops can be grown from temperate to tropical. Therefore, agribusiness if properly managed with the support of Govt. and Private sector can make our country not only rich but we can feed the entire world.

Regds

Manoj Singh