Maharashtra, from where the agriculture minister hails, is the home for horticulture and Baramati is home to horticulture barons. Even by the admission of the prime minister himself, during the just concluded ‘B.P.Pal Centenary’ celebrations, the original man behind the so-called green revolution, there simply is no big idea seen on the farm front. If Punjab, the granary of India and the
nucleus of the green revolution, reeling under soil fatigue, has decided to go in for contract farming, something is fundamentally wrong with our
agricultural strategy.
The writer is an international agriculture scientist nair_kpp@yahoo.com
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