- Nov 07, 2020
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- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own motivation has come from the fact that all the indicators in the world, the hunger index or whatever index you say, shows a high prevalence of malnutrition.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is something which other people have to recognize. You cannot demand that I am a leader.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was chairman of the steering committee for agriculture when we set up the target of 4% growth rate. I had written that if you want to achieve 4% growth rate in agriculture, you should have 8% growth in animal husbandry and fisheries and 8% in horticulture.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government only gives subsidies for nitrogenous fertilisers. With the result, farmers do not apply balanced fertilisers.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone.
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms of improving production and productivity.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, technology can advance yield and productivity, but only public policy can advance the income of farmers. There has to be a synergy between technology and public policy.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
When politicians talk of loan waiver, they are accepting that agriculture is not economically viable. They are giving a wrong signal that farming is not economically viable. It’s true. That’s where the loan waiver comes in.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of developing a methodology for what they call genetic control over seed, is mainly to ensure that F1 hybrids are pure and that every year you have to buy the seed.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any case, if I grow hybrid maize or hybrid pearl mallet or any hybrid, I have to sow fresh seed every year. I cannot keep the seed of the same plant. If I keep the seed of the same plant, yield will be much less and there will be a wide variation in the field, like maturity period, quality and so on.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hybrids have become an important method for improving productivity or yield in many crops including the self-pollinated crop like rice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can classify farmers into two major groups. One who saves seeds for the next crop and the other who purchases seeds from the market. Most of the commercial farmers like the US farmers are people who purchase seeds.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020