The presentation gives you overview of agriculture and allied sectors status in the country and strategies to achieve the country's target by 2025

1. Vision 2025-
Agriculture and Allied
Sector’s View Point
Dr Shivakumar Magada
Professor and Head
Fisheries Research and Information Centre, Hebbal,
Bangalore, India
shivakumarmagada@gmail.com
FRIC/Webinar 30/31.03.2021

2. FAO Recent Data ?
Key facts about hunger in India
Largest India is home to the largest undernourished population in
the world
14.5% of our population is undernourished
190.7 million people go hungry everyday
21.0% of children under 5 are underweight
38.4% of children under 5 years of age are stunted
1 in 4 children malnourished
3,000 children in India die every day from poor diet related illness
24% of under-five deaths in India
30% of neo-natal deaths in India

3. India must shift from production to productivity
Produces Production (mt) Total World
Production (mt)
India’s Position Country in first position Production diff.
(mt)
Milk 146.3 704.0 First - -
papaya 5.50 12.67 First - -
jute 1.96 3.26 First - -
Ginger 0.702 1.70 First - -
Banana 27.57 129 First - -
Mango 18.8 42.66 First - -
Millets 10.91 26.70 First - -
Cotton 3.32 (29.3 million bail
(1 bail = 226.8)
13.72
(121 million bail)
First - -
Cattle 68 million 434 million First -
Fish 12.8 168 Third - -
Marine 8.40 96.2 Third China (49.46) 41.62
Aquaculture 4.40 68 Second China (36) 31.89
Tea 0.90 5.2 Second China (1)
Sugarcane 352.14 1830 Second Brazil (739.3) 387.06
Potato 45.34 381.68 Second China (88.39) 43.05
Garlic 1.4 26.57 Second China (21.26) 19.86
Wheat 95 755 Second China (126)
Egg 5.60 70.5 Third China (34) 28.4
Poultry meat 3.60 90.5 Six America (18.7) 15.1
Meat 4.60 262.8 Eighth China (53.74)
Food Grains 272 2492.29 - - -
Maize 42.3 Fourth America (377.5) 335.2
Coffee 0.348 9.59 Seventh Brazil (2.59) 2.24
Coconut 11.12 million 59.01 million Third Indonesia (17.72) 6.6

5. Fish for Food Security
WHO: 20.3 kg India: 11.8 kg Karnataka: 5.8 kg

6. India’s Requirement by 2025
§ 350 mt of food grains (292 mt)
§ 15 mt of fish (12.8 mt)
§ 110 billion eggs (75-80 bn)
§ 5-6 mt of chicken meat (4.8 mt)
§ Fruits and vegetables 350 mt (314 mt of of
which 270 + from vegetables)
§ 6.3 mt of meat

8. What happens when water reduces?
§ Diminished crop growth
§ Dust storms
§ Reduced insect population
§ Increased snake migration and bites
§ Less Power-increased utility cost
§ Increased wild life risk and habitat damage
§ Wars over food and water
§ Rising food prices

9. Water requirement by produce
Product Unit
Equivalent water in
m3 per unit
Cattle head 4000
Sheep and goats head 500
Fresh beef kg 15
Fresh lamb kg 10
Fresh poultry kg 6
Cereals kg 1.5
Citrus fruits kg 1
Palm oil kg 2
Pulses, roots and
tubers
kg 1

10. Amount of virtual water per food by country in m3/ton
Product/
Country
U.S. China India Russia
Indo
nesia
Austra
lia
Brazil Japan Mexico Italy
Nether
lands
World
Average
Rice 1903 1972 4254 3584 3209 1525 4600 1822 3257 2506 - 3419
Wheat 849 690 1654 2375 - 1588 1616 734 1066 2421 619 1334
Corn 489 801 1937 1397 1285 744 118o 1493 1744 530 408 909
Soya beans 1869 2617 4124 3933 2030 2106 1076 2326 3177 1506 - 1789
Sugarcane 103 117 159 - 164 141 155 120 171 - - 175
Cottonseed 2535 1419 8264 - 4453 1887 2777 - 2127 - - 3644
Carton plaxel 5733 3210 18694 - 10072 4268 6281 - 4812 - - 8242
Coconut 749 2255 - 2071 - 1590 - 1954 - - 2545
Roast coffee 5790 7488 14500 - 21030 - 16633 - 33475 - - 20682
Tea leaves 11110 7002 3002 9474 - 6592 4940 - - - 9205
Beef 13193 12560 16482 21028 14818 17112 16961 11019 37762 21167 11681 15497
Pork 3946 2211 4397 6947 3938 5909 4818 4962 6559 6377 3790 4856
Goat's meat 3082 3994 5i87 5290 4543 3839 4175 2560 10252 4180 2791 4043
Mutton 5977 5202 6692 7621 5956 6947 6267 3571 16878 7572 5298 6143
Chicken 2389 3652 7736 5763 5549 2914 3913 2977 5013 2198 2222 3918
Eggs 1510 3550 7531 4919 5400 1844 3337 1884 4277 1389 1404 3340
Milk 695 1000 1369 1345 1143 915 1001 812 2382 861 641 990
Milk powder 3234 4648 6368 6253 5317 4255 4654 3774 11077 4005 2982 4602
Cheese 3457 4963 6793 6671 5675 4544 4969 4032 11805 4278 3190 4914
Cow leather 14190 13513 17710 22575 15929 18384 18222 11864 40482 22724 12572 16656

11. Remember the water when you eat
Product Quantity
Equivalent water
in liters
Glass of beer 250 ml 75
Glass of wine 125 ml 120
Glass of milk 200 ml 200
Glass of apple juice 200 ml 190
Cup of coffee 125 ml 140
Glass of orange juice 200 ml 170
Cup of tea 250 ml 35
Chips bag 200 g 185
Slice of bread 30 g 40
Egg 40 g 135

12. World's total cereal production was estimated at
2,977 mt in 2017.

13. The Photo, that
your wedding
photographer
missed

19. Major Problems in Agriculture Sector
§ Poor land holding
§ Poor capital
§ Scarcity of labour for agricultural operations
§ Problematic soils
§ Non adoption of scientific pest and disease management
§ Imbalanced nutrient application
§ Micro nutrient deficiencies
§ Lack of knowledge on value addition
§ Scarcity of inputs-seeds, livestock (Goat and cows)
§ Wild animals – Monkey, Peacock & wild pig menace
§ Migration of youngsters
§ Middlemen
§ Scarcity of fodder

20. Learned misleading India
§ Zero Budget Natural Farming
§ Organic farming
§ Farmers’ Bill 2020
§ Duplication of research (0.85% of GDP)
§ Wrong policies
§ Degrees with poor skill (3% of GDP)

21. India has all the solutions for the above
said problems
It does not matter how many resource we have, If we don’t
know how to use them

22. Estimated loss by Crop
§ Black Gram: Rs. 3000-4000/acre
§ Ragi: Rs. 2000-4000
§ Milk: Rs. 4.0-5.0/l
§ Tomato:
§ Chilli:
§ Coconut:
§ Sugarcane:
§ Vegetables:

23. Farm Ponds

24. Well planned Shrimp Farm-ETP

25. Shrimp Toilet

26. Crab farming

27. Indoor Carb Farming

28. Red Tilapia in Cages

29. Cage culture

30. IPRS

31. Recirculatory Aquaculture System

32. Biofloc Technology

33. Modular tanks

34. Well-Set Biofloc

35. Aquaculture Systems

36. Rs. 2.5-5/l

37. MVP?

38. Economic trade off…

40. Concrete and Plastic Lined

42. RAS

43. Hidden issues
§ The average income of family of four with 2.5 acre is Rs. 1.5
lakh/anum which works out to be Rs.3125/pm and it is
lower than the daily wage labour
§ Non working agriculturists (NWA) and Non Residential
Agriculturists (NRA)
§ In last 10 years, >23000 acres of paddy land has been
converted to areca, layout, occupied for industrial activity
or left fallow
§ Everyone is feeling that agriculture is not profitable
§ Stringent guidelines and Slow process in giving schemes
and initiatives
§ People (Including developmental officers and scientists) are
not aware of many schemes
§ Dealing with wrong data

44. They live with the Hope
More than 2 crore people have
displaced and millions have
lost their jobs

45. Only if you are ready for change....
Go throgh this slides

46. What to change…?
§ Thinking
§ Production systems
§ Scale
§ Technology
§ Economics
§ Processing
§ Branding & Marketing
§ Hard work to smart work
§ Data management

47. Pain in the finger
§ For doubling the farmers income, production
need not be doubled
§ Technology alone will not help the farmers to
earn more income
If the government can take care of forward linkage
and support services in marketing, it can abandon all
the schemes and earn money

48. Farmers Health, Soil Health, Financial
Health
51%
Pesticides
in the blood
and Urine
34% are
anaemic
35% are
Diabetic 29 % have
Blood
Pressure
Sight
problem
?
Out 743 farmers
of eight district
of Karnataka
Average
income of
small farmer
is less than
Rs. 3500/pm

49. Know the history of
your food
Otherwise you will
become history

50. Chappal V/s Fish

51. But, we need fungus free dry fish
Can we think of stick pouch, zip pouch…
I really don't
understand people?

52. State must invest on solar driers and can be rented it
our for drying grapes, chilli, fish etc on cost basis

53. What consumer wants..
What we are offering is..

54. Strategies to make the agriculture
sustainable and profitable
§ Special Agriculture Economic Zone
§ Green Army (Registration, descent place to sit,
uniform, category based on skill)
§ Branded outlets for selling produce
§ Storage facilities
§ Fixing the price based on scientific base
§ Promotion of ancillary agriculture

55. Strategies to make the agriculture
sustainable and profitable
§ Promotion of agro-tourism
§ Agripark at selected places
§ Skill Development Centre and HRD (Diploma in agri/horti/fish)
§ GI and branding (Harekala Chilli, Mattu Gulla, Kateel Melon,
Mallige)
§ Networking of machineries and tools in the lines of Ola, costom hire
centres at GP level
§ Making all schools and colleges to take the students to nearby
farms, syllabus on agriculture, NSS, RAWEP, NCC
§ Micro financing
§ Converting sprinkler to drip
§ Deepening of trench (thodu) and construction of thadegode
§ Strengthening of coop. societies
§ Agriculture approach road
§ Revive marketing network with all countries

56. Contd...
§ Farmers Producers Organizations (FPO)
§ Bee keeping
§ Groundwater recharge
§ Floriculture
§ Marketing network
§ Food safety and standards
§ Strengthening of RSKs by recruiting permanent
staff
§ IFS module development in each blocks
§ Organic farming
§ Linking agri-marketing through KMF

57. Strategies for Rural Development
§ Strengthening of Panchayatraj System
§ Region specific development plan
§ Evolve development plan through Grama Sabha
§ Increasing water availability > 85 LPCD
§ Roads, foot bridge and transportation links
§ Vented dams
§ Save lakes and rejuvenation of tanks and lakes
§ Home to all (> 35000 people do not have houses)

58. Contd.
§ Entrepreneurship for landless farmers
§ Social forestry (fruit trees, Biodiesel)
§ Power and Renewable energy sources
§ Cottage industries
§ Community participation
§ Public toilets
§ Waste management
§ Primary Health
§ Credit and capital support
§ Joint Liability Group
§ Supporting big agri joint families
§ Digitalization
§ Control on imports and removal of APMC cess
§ Protection of farms through fensing

59. Problem 1: Small holding
Solutions:
§ Community farming
§ contract farming
§ network marketing
§ Integrated Farming System
§ Creative marketing
§ We have no other magic

60. The Indian
Green Army©
Towards evergreen revolution
If one can organize 500 unemployed
youths and charge Rs. 50/day, he can earn
Rs. 10 lakhs a month
Problem 2: Labour Problem

61. Problem 3: Poor Capital
Solutions:
§ Agriculture term loan
§ Integrated Farming Systems
§ Creative Marketing
§ During free time work for others
§ Man hour sharing

62. Problem 4: Low yield
Solutions:
• Land levelling
• Water management
• Soil test and scientific farming
• Right cropping pattern
• Contacts with scientists of KVK and other
development officers
• Maintain data
• We have no other magic

63. Problem 5: Middleman
Solutions:
• Organize among your cluster
• Pre-process the produce
• Look for new and innovative markets
• Harvest your food
• Farm stay
• Direct marketing to residential schools, offices
etc
If you are deceived by the same man twice;
may you are worth it

64. When they can do it, We can also do

65. ICAR-KVK, Dakhshina
Kannada playing a role

66. Standard display units can be
given to small farmers

67. Coriander on road..

68. The Greenshop

69. The Blueshop

70. Fodder is cash crop now

71. Stall fed Goat farming

72. Project RAITA
Rental Agriculture Implements, Tools &
Accessories
§ Under start –up
program, we need to
promote some
company to develop
app
§ Or we can ask the
CEO of OLA/Uber

73. 9 points that can sustain agriculture in
India
§ No fragmentation
§ No fallow
§ Cancel all subsidies and incentives
§ Scientific Minimum Support Price (SMSP)
§ National Registry
§ Region Specific Chemical Fertilizers
§ Green Army
§ Insurance
§ Online transaction

74. Vision Values Strategy Resource Capability Motivation Feed Back = Change
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Confusion
Corruption
Diffusion
Frustration
Fatigue
Crawl
Doubt
Managing Change

75. Thank You