The second green revolution could be brought about mainly in the form of  agricultural industrialization.As of now industry has very little role in the production process of the agricultural  sector.They are involved in  trade and  processing alone.Production is handled by poor and uneducated farmers through very small holdings.

The ceiling of land holdings and non-granting of the status of industry to the  crop production are the major hurdles in raising the productivity of our land, labour, capital, agro-technology and maagrial talent.

Our land reform policies after independence have led to  ceiling of  land holdings, unchecked fragmentation of holdings, increase in the proportion of  small, marginal and micro-holdings, absentee land-lords due to migration from rural to urban areas  and development of uneconomic agricultural  households in the country.

Most farmers can’t afford provision for agri-inputs, high tech agriculture, assured irrigation and participation in improved trade practices due to lack of  education and resources.They are dependent on soft credits, subsidies,BPL cards,PDS, mid-day meals and unemployment doles.There produce is not enough to meet their own  requirements of food and other basic necessities.Our support systems are not enough and sustainable.We have to  import cereals, pulses, oils, sugar and other agri-commodities.The countrry is heading towards ‘begging bowl’ situation again!

The only remedy to my mind is imaginative corporatorization of agricultural production process.The production companies of cereals, pulses, oilseeds, fruits, vegetales, sugarcane and other  agri-commodities should be  established .This will enhance the productivity of all agri-inputs,land, labour, capital and agro-technologies.

This should be simply non-coercive and voluntary effort.Farmers may have  option to sell their land to these companies and/or merge with them.Govt must protect their  short term and long term rifgts.they must have option to walk away from the company as and when they want.

All the govt needs to do is to  scrap the ceiling laws and provide industry status to agricultural production.Rest of the things may automatically follow.Lot of private investment in agriculture will  come.the cost of production of many commodities will come down and we may have huge  quality produce not only to meet the domestic needs but make our produce  internationally competitive for sizeable exports.What we need is not  merely hypothetical green revolution but a real  green-industry revolution.

Would my friends agree and help dissiminate the idea at the  appropriate quarters that matter?

After witnessing the success of green revolution that made our country from a begging economy to fast developping  export economy, we are again seeing the shortage of cereals, pulses, sugar and edible oils.Clearly, the  fruits of green revolution proved short lived.The unchecked population load , rampant corruption in the governance and seriously faulty agricultural policies are responsible for this.

The ceiling laws, unlimited fragmentation of holdings and very litttle infrastructural investment in irrigation and  water management , have made farming a losing proposition.The land under  small  and marginal holdings  has increased enormously and the rate of such an increase is unabated.Soon, we shouldn’t be surprised to see only marginal farmers left in the country.These holding are uneconomic from any standard.They are  simply not sustainable and can’t be made to produce efficiently and make best use  of  inputs, labour  and technology.Populist measures are  not going to work.

What we need is corporatorisation of agriculture.The corporate houses should e encouraged to have  production companies for grains, vegetables, fruits, sugancane, animal products etc.The field should be laid open to farmers to merge  with the corporate house or not.IT MUST BE TOTALLY VOLUNTARY WITH A PROVISION TO MOVE OUT OF THE COMPANY  ANY TIME AND ASSURANCES FOR  EMPLOYMENT  AS WELL.

Such companies can make better utilisaton  of land, labour, capital and  latest agro-technology.The private investment in agri sector will increase and the productivity of all inputs  will see manyfold increases.Only tthen,our agri-commodities can become really competitive in the world market.We could then think of export economy in agriculture sector as well rather than heading towards begging  bowl situation again.Will our leaders and planners give a  thought to it?

The humiliation and insult felt  by Shah Rukhat an US airportrecently is  certainly regrettable.There must be proper and effective international protocol to prevent such avoidable mishaps.The security personnel , however, deserve cogratulations for their sincerity and professionalism.We have lot to learn  from them back home.

The media shouldn’t blow the event out of proportion.After 9/11, any country would, rather do, the same.FOR THE COMFORT OF FEW CELEBRITIES,THE LIES OF MILLIONS CAN’T BE PUT IN DANGER.Who stops our security personnel to enforce strict  checking and frisking procedures?The remaks that,”MUTTHI BHAR TERRORIST MUSLIMS ARE PUTTING ENTIRE MUSLIM COMMUNIITY INTO HUMILIATION”,is very true.Let the terrorists see reason ad protect the interests of their fellow co-religionists.

Since terrorism is threatening International peace, I think it is time that multinational  peace keeping force must assist the Pakistan authorities fight this menace.For dplomatic reasons, Pak may not readily agree to such a suggestion.The International community must try to extract honourable agreement from them.At present, the democratically elected govt there seems to be hostage to extremists and fundamentalists.They feel shy in admitting this fact publically.But terrorism can’t be cotained otherwise;unless all the suspected elements are booked and brought to justice.

The kind of terrorism witnessed in the world today has nothing to do with religion except that the religion is being misused to be used as weapon to get political mileage  somewhere.The political bosses of these terrorist outfits are utilising the sentiments of their  co-religionists to facilitate recruitments, indoctrination and flow of funds.They exploit their poverty, poor education and their  religious sentiments to perpetrate crimes against humanity.The young boys don’t know the basics of their religion and fall victim to greed for petty money.Their childhood religious complexes are being exploited by the political bosses, extremists and fundamentalists.

The Indian muslims who don’t have exposure to liberal education also fall prey to false propaganda.The religious freedom enjoyed by every citizen in India is perhaps unparalleled in the world.This applies equally to minorities and the majority.No one interferes with the religious views, rituals and affiliations of any one.The fanatisism in the name of religion is practically non-existent among the majority hindu community.They consider religion as private and personal matter.It is this thing in India that is her strength and weakness both.The strength, because that makes  her truly tolerant and birth place for fresh thoughts and , even, new religions of the future.The weakness, because religion of the majority gets uncoupled from nationalism.

But what can happen if the majority is pushed to the wall simply by the fundamentalists.The reactionary forces among the hindus will get strengthened.The consequences shall not be conducive to peace, progress and human brotherhood, irrespective of the fact as to who wins and who loses.

The leadership of the West in economic spheres shouldn’t be challemged like this. One has  to develop better economic models to grab the leadership in a fair way.Using religion as a weapon is certainly disastrous and suicidal.

Hope good sense to prevail all around.The world citizenry has to be more imaginative, practical, radical and, more importantly, united to face this menace threatening the peace , progress and order in the whole world.

The threats of terrorists to our vital economic interests and infrastructure planely suggests that their aim is not simply religious.They fully understand that any such activity will affect majority and minority communities.They would certainly not expect the minorities driven out of the country.Therefore, minorities have to be more proactive than hither to regarding exposing the militants and terrorists so that they don’t get shelter any where with in the national boundares.We share our common destiny as a nation.

The terrorism purely based inside the country could be handled by existing civilian laws.But the acts of terrorism , promoted, sponsored, financed and occasionally manned from outside the country,simply constitute an act of war.They can’t be effectively managed by civilian laws and courts.They require to be tried like war enemies and detained as POWs.The military courts must try such matters.

The existing provisions of evidence act are not prudent in such trials.The Human Rights Commissions may be got associated with such trials.

It is not proxy war but fully planned strategic war fought with sophisticated weapons and trained personnel and involves innocent civilian lives.

World knows about our secular credentials.We must be talking frank and the history must be discussed and written accordingly.No aggression, no bias, no shyness and no twisting of facts.The subcontinent shares 90% common blood.The extra-territorial loyalties due to any reason are simply infructuous and must put in proper perspective.Lack of frankness on our part has brought us to this point of divisiveness in the country in the name of religion.True and frank interpretation of history must be helpful in persuading the people to see reason and forge real sense of unity and nationalism.