Recent Publication
Recent Publication
1. 3G MODEL FOR FARMERS AND AGRIPRENURES EMPOWERMENT : Dr. Satyen Yadav & Dr. Ishan Yadav (Life Time Achievement Award Lecture, delivered on 29th January, 2020,at International Conference at Shobhit University,Meerut)
A integrated sustainable model to strengthen Indian Agrarian Economy and taking Indian to Global leadership in Agriculture & Food has been developed based on various researches, trials and market research. The model is based on Indian Cows (GAU),Indian River(Ganga) and Indian Villages(Gao) and hence called G3. G3 model is a self-sustainable integrated agribusiness model for the strengthening of rural economy adopting “farm to energy” concept under participatory mode with a win-win situation for all the stake holders of the shortest vale chain.This model has the potential to transform the country’s agrarian economy and it can easily be replicated. This model will empower farmers, agriprenures by a well defined “three fold program” i.e.to increase the productivity, To provide additional income option agribusiness options and agriprenureship development.
2. Strengthening Agrarain Economy of India Through Farmers and Agriprenures (Dr. Satyen Yadav & Dr. Ishan Yadav)
India, being agrarian country with varied agro-climatic conditions having over 700 million people i.e. 69% of the population depends upon the rural economy for their livelihood but it is not sustainable and consistent with a low per capita income due to various reasons e.g. low productivity, lack of post-harvest infrastructure, timely availability of agri-inputs, finance and market access..
3. FEEDING THE WORLD IN 2030: The hunger with reference to India (Dr. Satyen Yadav & Dr. Ishan Yadav)
Approximately 8.5 billion, say 9 billion including 200 billion new mouths will be expecting at least 1500 calories (even if we do not take ideal and required calorie for daily budget ) will require food (irrespective of their nature of food and RDA) to satisfy their satiety center which is called “hunger generator”. So, availability versus demand of food to satisfy the hunger globally ,the data from a FAO 2014 study reveals that between 1990-92 and 2012-14 of hungry people shows a reduction from 1015 million to 805 million. Though, it looks nice but why to have even single hungry person on the earth and achieve the status of “zero Hunger” and once we reach this level, we should talk about DRA and the nourishment.
Prof. R.B.Singh, an eminent Agriculture Scientist and currently Chancellor of Central Agriculture University, India has addressed various issues in his lecture in XII ASC annual conference (www.naasindia.org) and said that India is the home of almost one-fourth of the world’s hungry and poor and if we see the decrease India has only 9.5 during last two decades and if we compare with China where decrease is 48% and globally it is by 20% which gives us a food for thought and forces us to rethink on the issues of poor access of food and the channels for food distribution which is full of faulty modus operandi with many man-made leakages if we wish to make India, which is contributing a lot towards the problems due to the uncontrolled population and faulty systems, free from hunger, we need strong will power and wish to adopt the holistic and corrective approached which should be self-driven rather imposed, the solution is not impossible. It is difficult but achievable. So, what for we have waiting! Let’s pool our intention and control the circumstances and move ahead to have “ZERO HUNGER NATION” by 2030. This will be our biggest contribution to man kind and specially in the country, where our culture advocated and opted “Manav Sewa” (serving to human being) as their first step towards their final destination i.e. oneness with GOD or the liberation from the current life-death cycle (we will not touch this issue because we are addressing the current issues at relative plane). To address this bottle neck, we need to understand the two biological terms “catalyst” and “inhibitors” to maintain the balance, if we can not eliminate the inhibitors from the system.
In India, we all (specially policy makers, politicians, and even academicians) talk about small and marginal farmers without seeing the income ratio between farmer and non farmer is 1:4 and interpret the World Bank Report of 2014 on per capita availability and production of cereals in India, it looks like a big puzzle. In India, we all talk about that our 70% population is from rural India and out of this 70% of the rural India, 90% belongs to the category of small and marginal farmers and 50% of this category people owns less than one hectare land who feed us and are called “ANNA DATTA”(Food Givers) are the poorest and hungriest people.
Understanding the challenges, convergence of policy interventions, political wish and commitments and enabling mechanism having the transparent and effective mechanism to address the issues related to food security and food safety is like a “relay marathon race” which will need participation of the people who are the integral part of the value chain and supply chain who are responsible to put the “problems” and “solutions” together. So, let’s take a step ahead because we are bound morally also because of three basic factors i.e. India has the home of one-fourth of hungry people of the world, India is the home one-third of the small and marginal farmers of the world but at the same time having high diversity rich staus in the world which is full of natural resources and human capital. So, let’s realize our inherent strength and move ahead and keep moving till we reach our destination.
If we see the opportunity, gaps and challenges in India, it seems that the fast growth of urban middle class is pushing the growth of horticulture, live stock and aquaculture but do we really trying hard to meet the challenges and fill the gaps which are due to various factors like productivity, appropriate technologies and it’s dissemination and adoptability by the farmers who are playing a key role in the required transformation. Though, we have been talking about diversification but are we really achieving what we target? We remember my stay in Punjab during 2000 to 2005 when diversification was one of the most talked issue but inspite of making so much noise have we really achieved? Let’s introspect and find it within ourselves before we go out to find the fault and correct ourselves first and further move ahead, the goal is not too far.
If we see the Agriculture Growth through total factor productivity (TFP) analysis and gap cited in FAO/World Bank 2014’s “Gap Report”, India has achieved 3.5 % to 4% growth rate but it needs to be sustained with reference to future growth. This gap report say that India will be able to grow foods for it’s requirement only by 59% by 2030. So, why are we waiting for 2030 to be on our head which is already knocking the doors.
Let’s understand the weaknesses due to ineffective technological dissemination, diversification decreasing orientation of people, enhancing the labour productivity, available of right bio-resources, protecting poor farmers from market and climate uncertainties and technological interventions and on the top of every thing the political wish will certainly help us in reducing the distance between problem and the solution.
An opportunity of 100% FDI in agriculture sector is a good tool which has come due to the new policies and India’s Prime Minister’s mission “Make In India” should be linked with “MADE IN INDIA TO GLOBE” which is our team’s agenda till we reach our target to get ready to feed 9 billion in 2030.
4. FEEDING THE WORLD IN 2030: The Issue
We, personally believe that India is going to be world leader by 2030 and my belief is forcing me to visualize the food security and food safety issue in 2030 and being a part of this ecosystem and accepting the role of the responsible citizens of India, likely to be played for meeting the new challenges. With this assumptions and pledge to face the challenges successfully, we move further to look a view on the possible trends of the population growth which is going to be trouble shooter for the entire food & agriculture workers, who are getting ready to face these challenges or if not, at least discussing and worrying about the 2030.We are not the data analyst or interpreter but certainly based on the data generated by the agencies, responsible for formulating the strategy for the welfare of people and the environment of this planet. So, without going to the data analysis, we would try to address the issue and will try to come to a hypothesis having some strategy and road map ,which may not be absolute but certainly can be talked about and tested before being rejected.
If we see the FAO/World Bank and the reports, being generated and discussed about population trend, we see that world’s population is projected to reach 8.5 billion by the year 2030,9.7 billion by the year 2050 and 11.2 billion by the year 2100.It is also estimated that India will surpass China as the most populous country in next 7-8 years which will be the another issue to be addressed in advance before it comes and start knocking our doors. Various results of population estimates are pressing us hard to think about the new agenda of development for future and here we would like to focus on only one small but very important and critical for “life” of the entire eco-system consisting of all living creatures of both the kingdoms i.e. Animal and plant.
Now, let’s have a close view on 2030 with reference to agriculture and food ,India has been showing the capabilities of handling need based challenges during last few decades and after satisfying the country’s needs ,it is ready to feed the world but we need to think carefully and plan before accept the challenge and advance towards the challenge because as per the FAO’s estimates 2 billion new mouths will be waiting to be fed in 2030,so are we ready for it ?
Taking in to the consideration the mechanism of this planet’s management ,it seems that it is revolves around a system with a “auto mode on”, having a perfect software with a authorization and monitoring and correcting system inbuilt without having any opportunity to bounce back. so, under this situation, either we accept it and enjoy it or if we decide to be a participant than we must understand this and select a role without affecting the roles of others.
The Critical Components :
To address the food security and food safety issue, we need to know the components which are critical. If we take the play ground that is the land and the diversity which is related to various biotic and abiotic factors and our environment and as a whole dominate the whole eco-system whether at as a niche level or at a broader level.
Regarding land availability and diversity, let’s about two large countries having one of the largest land holding and the diversity i.e. India and China.China has about three times agriculture land than India but India has double of the arable land than China along with the available pre-requisites and natural resources to exploit it to meet the future challenges and take a driving role in meeting the challenges which are advancing fast towards us. But it is the only strength to be realized rather to keep in mind the threats as well as e.g.China is raising meat and fish and for which it requires many millions of grains, so this gap of grain availability versus demand should also need to be addressed.
The Solution :
We strongly believe that no problem exists without a solution, so why we worry for a solution.we just pull up our shocks and find the solution and match with the problems and enjoy the happiness and experience the realities of life for which we have descended on the earth.
How to do it?
It simply needs wish and will to do it,pre-requisites will automatically come the Supreme Commander of this universe also wants this to happen otherwise why many people are being inspired to think ahead.So,let’s make Nature/God as our partner and take a step.
Dr. Satyen Yadav & Dr. Ishan Yadav
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