India's agriculture sector plays a key role in its economy and society. The document discusses the importance of increasing agricultural production and ensuring new technologies reach farmers. It proposes a model where research institutes in each region would study soil and climate conditions to advise farmers on optimal crops. Automatic weather stations and mobile phones would help disseminate this advice. Ensuring electricity, insurance, banking access and other farmer supports could help justify implementing these recommendations to transform Indian villages.

1. Transforming India and
Indian Villages to our
Expectations is a Dream
or Reality
Kanagiri S Prasad : Director Kanagiri Infotech Pvt
Ltd, Hyderabad. Email:
Ksprasad2002@yahoo.com, Kanagiri.infotech@gmail.com

2. Introduction
 It looks fine that we are ahead in all fields and we are
progressing very fast when compared to other
countries. To become stronger we have to concentrate
on our primary sector and we should not neglect our
agriculture.
 We have to improvise further in agriculture sector
substantially and the new technology should reach
each and every farmer.

3. Introduction - 2
 India lives mainly in its villages, 600,000 of them. The
village remains the basic unit of the Indian society and
roughly 65% of the population is rural. They constitute the
backbone of what is still, largely, an agricultural economy.
Agriculture is the mainstay of the majority of the
population in India. Extremes in climate and a variety of
soil conditions have made possible the cultivation of
almost every item from cash crops to foodgrains.
 India's growth in per capita food production during 1979-
92 was about 1.6% per annum, which is the highest growth
rate in the world during this period. (Source:
library.thinquest.org)

4. Introduction - 3
 Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output.
Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and logging
and accounted for 16.6% of the GDP in
2007, employed 52% of the total workforce and despite
a steady decline of its share in the GDP, is still the
largest economic sector and plays a significant role in
the overall socio-economic development of India.

5. Introduction - 3
 India is the largest producer in the world of
milk, cashew nuts, coconuts, tea,ginger, turmeric and
black pepper. It also has the world's largest cattle
population (281 million). It is the second largest
producer of wheat, rice, sugar, groundnut and inland
fish It is the third largest producer of tobacco. India
accounts for 10% of the world fruit production with
first rank in the production of banana and sapota.
 India's population is growing faster than its ability to
produce rice and wheat.

6. Green Revolution
 First Green Revolution: India's food-grains production has hovered
around a fifth of a billion tonnes mark in recent years. More than self-
sufficient, India frequently exports its surpluses. India in 55 years has
emerged from famine ridden colonial times, as a famine free Republic.
Its population has nearly tripled in that period. More
significantly, India in 1947,lost some of its most fertile lands. But she
has managed to stand up and falsify many prophesies of doom. India
was the greatest success story of the Green Revolution.
 Although today her agriculture is at a cross-roads again, the Green
Revolution of the sixties gained some crucial decades for India in which
to rethink her way forward. The Revolution is also worth remembering
for India's capacity for collective action. Pause a while therefore, before
you decry India's administration for every ill in the land. (source:www.
Goodnewsindia.com)

7. Second Green Revolution
 The Second Green Revolution of boosting food-grain
output in India to 400 million tons in next 15 years is need
of the day. Its achieving is not very difficult. Rather it is
achievable if mindset on introducing newer technology is
changed. India has to whole-heartedly embrace the new
technology.
 Private sector is better suited to deliver results than
government managed schemes. Governments on the other
hand can play a key role in expediting irrigation schemes
and managing water
resources.(source:www.ivarta.com/columns/OL-
070325.htm)

8. Ministry Of Agriculture On
Commercializing agriculture Production
 In recent years, much emphasis has been given by the
Ministry of Agriculture on commercializing
agricultural production in the country. Adequate
production and distribution of food has become a high
priority and global concern. In the fast changing world
and increasing competition in a globalised
economy, there is a need of exploiting the available
resources at maximum level and use of best
technologies available world over, to cope with
domestic demand of food and also to target export
market.

9. Double the production
 The Ministry is aiming to double the production of all
horticulture crops through NHM and disseminating
latest and modern practices of production and post
harvest care.
 It is also encouraging the farmers to diversify from
traditional crops to high value horticulture crops for
long term economic development

10. Right Use Of Technology
 As is well known, right use of technology holds the key
to sort out many problems in agriculture and allied
sectors.
 Modern technology needs to be adopted to improve
the functioning of the entire agricultural activities.
 (source : agritech inida – 2010-www.agriculture
information.com

11. Major Bottlenecks
 Persistent inequalities ineffective delivery of public
services, weak accountability systems and gaps in
implementation of proper policies are the major
bottlenecks to progress” Experts view published in
Deccan chronicle on September 18 th 2010.

12. Indian children : Under Nourishment
 A United Nations Development program report
released on Friday .i.e on 17 th September 2010 states
that Indian accounts for 50 percent of the hungry lot.
 Over 46 percent of Indian children are
undernourished.
 No doubt India might be an aspirant superpower but
one has to check these very seriously about under
privileged

13. Proposal
 My case study emphasizes that how to reach the
New technology in each and every village of India.
 I have a proposal and I would like to give an example of
Andhra Pradesh study.
 In Andhra Pradesh we have 1110 mandals. The mandal
concept has been introduced by Sri N T Rama Rao in
the year 1983

14. Agricultural Research Institutes in
Hyderabad
 We have major Agriculture research institutes’ are located in
Hyderabad like International Crops research Institute for the
semi arid tropics (ICRISAT), Central research Institute for Dry
land Agriculture (CRIDA) .NG Ranga Agriculture University –
Rajendra Nagar. Baptala Agriculture University , SV Agriculture
University-Tirupathi,Water and Land Management training and
Research Institute (Walamatri),
 Nation Institute o The world vegetable centre of south Asia –
(AVRDC – ICRISAT), International Water Management Institute
of South Asia Region located at ICRISAT (IWMI), Maize
research Station in Hyderabad, National Institute of agricultural
Management (MANAGE) ,National Institute of Rural
Development (NIRD), National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and
many more…….

15. Need of the Hour

The Need of the hour is……. “ The Second Green
Revolution” and Sustainability and withstanding the
climate change (Global Warming)We have to take the
advice of our earlier green revolution mentor of Prof M
S Swaminathan and his team and also we need to
consult Renowned Agro climatologists on this subject.
Our President Smt Prathiba patel has also given
emphasis on Second Green Revolution on our
independence day celebration held at Red fort New
Delhi on 15 th august 2010.

16. Example for Maximum Yield
 is interesting to note that a lady (Dhoodhedda
It
.
Suguna )from Village Katkoor of Bachannapeta
Mandalam of Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh
has produced maximum yield for (In one acre nearly
eighty bags)very recently and she has been invited to
visit USA On 9 th October to attend a International
workshop on World Food Production and related
Issues. Along with her a lady from Tamil nadu also
been selected for the same. It has been published in
Eenadu “Vasundara” on 13-09-2010.

17. Success Stories :
 These farmers have set an example to others to
.
achieve maximum yield. The success story of these
women has to be screened and should be shown all the
farmers of Andhra Pradesh.

18. Interdisciplinary approach:
 All the Research institutes are required to form a
.
forum representing each person from those particular
institutes. The collective representative are experts in
subjects like dry farming, water management soil
experts ,fertilizer experts, waste management
experts, nutrition experts, Horticulture
experts, Vegetable experts, Agronomists Agro
climatologists, Watershed management experts , pest
control experts so on so forth.

19. ModeI
 They have to study 1104 mandals and should develop a
model (web page) in each mandal and every mandal
to suggest what crops are grown based on the fertility
of the soil and availability of water so on so forth.
They have to review their progress once in a month in
order to get better yield and results for the benefit of
the farmers.

20. New Technology
 The new technology has to reach the farmers by
way of mobile phones only. Each Farmer has a
mobile. The information about the soil and what
time &what kind of crops are grown and what are
the precautions has to be taken in case of
alarming situations has to be passed through
voice linked messages . Google India has
developed site for all the regional languages why
can’t we send the same needed
information(messages) to the farmers with voice
linked in their respective regional languages.

21. New Technology II
 We need to provide in each and every mandal
Automatic weather stations of indigenous and
these weather station should be linked with the
main frame located at state headquarters. The
daily weather has to be sent to farmers through
message to their mobile phones.

22. Government Initiation
 I just came to know that one company in Hyderabad
named www.HEXATRIK.co.in is providing the weather
stations at a very reasonable and affordable cost.
 The Government of Andhra Pradesh has to initiate
action on this

23. The Role of IMD
 I have read in the news paper three days back that the
newly installed radar at IMD Hyderabad. The IMD
director said they will be in a position tell everyone
before two hours advance about any kind of hazards
pertaining to the climatic conditions of that region
that they inform the same through sending messages
to their mobiles. Really it is a welcoming sign

24. Farmer’s Need better Justification By
implementing these measures
 In spite of all these we have to do certain things:
 1. Free supply of electricity more than 10 hour s a day
irrespective of small, marginal and large farmer.
 (as the Government of Andhra Pradesh is doing now
for 7 hours )
 2. Crops insurance has to be taken as government
responsibility in order to unforeseen circumstance
farmers should not be affected.
 3. Farmers pass books have to issue to everyone. Loans
has to be arrange from the Nationalize Banks or
through the Gramena cooperative banks or District
cooperative banks. Pavala Vaddi has to be given to all
marginal and small farmers.

25. Farmer’s Need better Justification By
implementing these measures II
 4. Supply of fertilizers should be given top priority
and there should not be any kind of shortages and
the government has to consider this issue very
seriously and it has happened very recently in
Andhra Pradesh.
 5. Drinking water and construction of the toilets
has to be encouraged by giving subsidy to them.
 6. Farmers have to be provided with free mobile
phones where incoming calls and incoming of
messages are assured.
 7. Farmers should be provided cold storage units

26. Farmer’s Need better Justification By
implementing these measures III
 8. Middle men problems have to be resolved while
selling their products in nearby mandals and
towns.
 9. During unseasonal they should be given work
on NREGS (National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme)
 And may be many more other have to add the
missing priorities.

27. Conclusion
 Finally I say We have everything resources
, experts , planners, Good governments but we
lack the proper implementation of the projects
, weak accountability ,passing the responsibility
on other shoulders so on so forth and these are
our major bottlenecks to our progress.
 We talk about our technology very high but it has
to reach everyone then only we are ahead of
others and definitely one day we will be ahead in
the race of superpowers.