The promise is the same everywhere.
Buy our patented seeds at twice the price of others, buy our chemical fertilizers and pesticides and you will prosper like the government subsidized American farmers.
These corporate parasites know how to sell in any language.
The cost of the promised prosperity which seldom occurs without government subsidy and requires annual borrowing, as with American farming, is more than a poor farmer can afford.
But corporate greed convinces him to gamble his future and his life on false corporate hope.
Working hand in glove with the corporate scum are the local money lenders, sometimes taking 5% interest per month and sometimes the entire harvest if drought or floods do not beat Mr.
Moneybags to the harvest.
India could not have chosen a worse model to modernize its agriculture than American corporate farming, which has already destroyed more value than it has produced, excluding corporate profits of course, because corporate balance sheets are all that matter in this world.
Raped lands and environments be damned.
People and the people in government especially, easily lose sight of the fundamental importance of agriculture to the total national economy.
A nation which does not feed its people is forever dependent upon the good will of people who cannot be trusted.
Even the rich nations have boarded this leaky boat and they will pay dearly for so doing and are already paying dearly, in terms of food quality, environmental damage and disease.
If a nation is to have healthy people, requiring a minimum of medical attention, it must have health producing food, not the plastic the corporations peddle in the name of high yields and damage resistance.
To have health building food, grow in rich organic soil 100% chemical free.
In the story I read, a 31 year old farmer borrowed $9 for a bottle of pesticide which he drank to kill himelf.
So the manufacturer made five dollars to create a widow and two small fatherless children.
Congratulations on your keen business acumen, corporate parasite.
Win - lose marketing at its finest.
Indian government must discourage all farming and switch to organic gardening to continuously enrich the soil upon which a combination of subsistence and high value cash crops are grown.
Competing with government subsidized, environmentally destructive, disease producing corporate agriculture is like running a marathon on your hands and knees.
You might finish the race but you will win no prize.
We are talking about a sustainable foundaion for a national economy.
It deserves more thought and planning than where to build the next chemical disaster.
To have rich and healthy soil as a foundation for prosperity it is essential to compost mineral rich plants and manures, green and vegetariabn animal wastes.
The best source of mineral rich plants are seacoasts.
The next best source is former cotton fields planted in alfalfla or a similarly deep root crop which mines the deep minerals in sub soil.
A government which will subsidize small scale agriculture will make strict conditions.
A gardener must produce twice the food his family requires, so a partial failure allows his family to eat.
Crops sprayed with a mixture of kelp or seaweed and fish emulshion are drought resistant, insect resistant (few insects eat fish or kelp), disease resistant and yield more plant and fruit than anything corporate agriculture will ever have to offer.
Build raised gardens close to the house or shanty where it is natural to keep a close eye on them.
Make them any length and four feet wide, waist high.
Fill the bottom half with sand or stone, the top half or one third with topsoil and compost.
Build with brick, block or stone which will not wash away with heavy rain.
Use either a square foot method or third meter, in the case of a one meter wide bed.
The idea is an easy reach from each side to the center of the bed.
By growing food and high value cash crops in these raised beds, one has purchased one time flood insurance.
Small pipes at the bottom of these beds allow the bed to drain by gravity.
The soaked soil will drain.
If the rain is severe or prolonged, spread inexpensive covers over a sturdy frame above the plants in the bed.
In Winter or cold weather, clear plastic covers will heat the bed and prevent crop freeze overnight.
The thermal mass of such elevated beds acts as a thermal flywheel, maintaing desired temperatures.
As each gardner is growing twice the table food required by his family or more, let the surplus be split.
Half for fresh seed and half for the local market.
The independence and security the regular production of surplus food engenders cannot be valued in currency.
This is private, personal, life and health insurance.
Cash crops should be both common and coveted medicinal herbs and spices.
There will always be a free market for such.
Wisely chosen herbs and spices may be dried and shipped around the globe at very high profits.
Trends in rich countries will always tell you how to harvest the most cash from a square foot or third meter of crop.
Square Foot Gardening is now so highly developed, one can grow five times the crop volume with the same resources wasted in conventional farming and gardening.
Any nation not using this method is wasting resources and labor.
Harvest humanithy for record profits and growth, not chemicals and scarce resources.
Outlaw the corporate confidence men and the local money lenders.
Teach your rural populations sustainable agriculture and become the dominant economic power of the New Age.
The wisdom to do so is among your people.
When you end farming, you end farmer suicides.