Saturday, January 1, 2011
INDIAN AGRICULTURE - WOULD IT EVER BE INDIAN AGRI-BUSINESS
Well Well its been centuries of green pastures , cultivation ,trade and consumption but the mellow side of the indian agriculture always remains the big question mark(?) of its ability to emerge as a business . With 60% rural population aligned to this job profile -Agriculture and 100% prospects(probably a few who can survive without food can challenge this assumption !!) .The apathy of uncertanity ,weather vagaries and lopsided policies have been challenging to the occupational hazard for this sector.So many companies have come ,emerged ,evolved and vanished only a select few have been able to make a mark . The real problem lies not in the intent but to the extent one is willing to understand the underlying truth in this sector .It is not an industrial process of batch manufacturing neither is a process of controlled experiment .It can be best defined as a process of risk both seen and unforeseen .The issue lies whether these risks can be tamed to evolve a business model and free the ailing sector from the clutches of misery and uncertanity .....
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Dear Akhil,
ReplyDeleteI have similar and congruent ideas on Indian Agriculture. It is a matter of how the tenant farmers are included in the policy frame work to benefit from the policies. Stay in touch.
of'course i agree to your point, otherwise onion prices cannot be tamed.
ReplyDeleteSituation will remain the same until that “60% rural population aligned to this job profile -Agriculture “remain the same. So solution lies in the question “how we can reduce that figure of 60%” i.e. migrating them from profession of Agriculture to some other like service, mgf etc.
ReplyDeletePlanning to improve and to something within agricultural sphere is just like cleaning an over populated fish pong in place of migrating some of them to another pond.