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I Am Basically From Agricultural Family, I Am From State of Tamil Nadu, in Our Country Percentage of People Involved in Agriculture is More, I See One Deficiency in Our Educational Institution Formed, There Are 250 Engg Colleges in Tamilnadu, Compared to That No of Agricultural Universities Are Very Less, Because of This Research and Development in Agriculture Are Less. If That is Improved and if There is a Mechanism to Reach the Ordinary People, Then We Can Do Wonders in Agriculture Also; I Think We Have to Go for Food Processing to Sell the Agriculture Products, So That Those Products Will Sell for Good Price. But There is No Right Mechanism, Which Can Tell the About the Advances and Techniques. Recently We Have Adapted Sprinkler Irrigation for Onion Crop in Our Field, Which Gave Good Onion Yield, the Main Point I Want Tell You is if Possible From Your President Position if You Can Suggest Some Methodologies to Improve This Condition, It Will Be Very Good to Improve the Rural Economy of India.
Name: S. Venugopal, Electrical Engg., IISc.,
Age: Not Available
Institution: IISC
City: Bangalore
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Recently I have come across a model for productivity improvement in cotton followed by Oswal Group in a village called Navapind in Punjab. They have succeeded in doubling the seed cotton productivity of the entire village through a training programme conducted by the Punjab Agricultural University, Industry and Farmers. This partnership has worked very well. Navapind experience is now being replicated in ten more villages. Subsequently, it will be propagated in four hundred villages. We need such programmes for all types of crops.
By A.P.J.Abdul Kalam