Corporates are creating land banks in the name of investment. Everyone knows investing in land gives high returns. So corporates are hoodwinking the governaments and grabing the land in the name of investment. ofcourse we need industries but the exent of land is aquired for any projects is unreasonably high. There has to b a proper analysis by experts before agriculture land is aquired for perticular projects. Goveenmant shd not give away whatever land corporates demand.
In Maharashtra the joint venture PAL Peageut car company became defunct.The Governemnt of Maharashtra was calling back the land allotted to the company.Now what happened to it. While allotting lands to body corporates the government should have a check point to call back the land if the venture of the corporate happen to fail.If one by one body corporates come grab land and go insolvent means land bank is shrinking where to go for additional land. After all it acannnot be synthesised in any lab/factory. will the government take cognizence of this point at least hereafter while allotting the lands to any body corporate
Instead , DREAM BIG of controlling the parallel economy your country is reeling under. DREAM BIG of bringing all the money held up in SWIZZ. DREAM BIG of providing atleast a whole meal for millions of poor of your country. DREAM BIG to provide a corruption free government. DREAM BIG of preventing thousands of farmers suiciding for want of means. DREAM BIG of setting up industries in rural and backward areas instead of SEZ DREAM BIG of displaying minimum decency of compensating reasonably before depriving of a poor farmer of his little holding. DREAM BIG of involving people and not rich men making them richer. DREAM BIG of how hard it is to bear if one hits you below the belt. DREAM BIG how to avoid adding wrath to poor men's life DREAM BIG of providing a free and fair law and order situation to every nook and corner of the country. DREAM BIG of how ti win over the poor farmers of this country instead of cheating them and dooping them. DREAM BIG of how you acquire everything in life by paying , and how you pay scanty amount to a farmer for taking away his lifeline. DREAM BIG of setting up industries which are a must for development , but not at the cost of suppressing thousands of poor. DREAM BIG of your country wherein live millions of poor and few hundreds of rich , and how not to hit the poor "below the belt", for want of appeasing a few unscruplous elements in the govt. setup. DREAM BIG of how to avoid growth of unrest in INDIA.
This article is another example of rediff's anti-national viewpoints. I think the shareholding pattern of rediff should be deeply investigated, which probably would reveal why the publishd articles are mostly anti-Indian and why the objective is to thwart progress of our country.
Re: Another Example of Rediff's anti-national views
by Ravi Narayanan on Jun 01, 2010 11:17 AM
Its very unfortunate that Devdutt Sen has not understood the ground reality. It is a fact that hundereds of acres of cultivation land has been destroyed to have concrete jungles in the same of so called industrialisation. Just imagine if this goes on without proper check and control there would be a day when we will not have land to cultivate our own food crops.
Re: Another Example of Rediff's anti-national views
by kieran dsouza on Jun 04, 2010 12:21 PM
So according to Mr. Devdutt Sen, the bongs who were protesting against TATA NANO project in Singur were antinational rather than just protesting their land being grabbed.
Have u donated your brain to some corporate Mr. Sen?
Re: Another Example of Rediff's anti-national views
by Piyush Dhangar on Jun 02, 2010 01:07 PM
Have some sense in what you say.You call this article as AntiNational, you must be some builder I guess.
Out of the tatal land acquired so far in India, how much is in actual use for public purpose. If any body has the data, he is free to correct us. We know that more than 70% land is not in any use even after its acquisition and disbursal of compensation of it.
I have seen this farm at least on three different occasions. You can also look it up.
This subterranean farm look like a conceptual factor from a sci-fi movie , but it is actually being cultivated right now in a former bank vault in Tokyo. Pasona O2 covers about a square kilometer, growing vegetables and fruits like tomatoes, lettuce, and strawberries, as well as flowers and herbs—even a large rice paddy! Snazzy state-of-the-art technology controls temperature and artificial sunlight levels.
I have tasted rice with yogurt, tomatoes, lettuce and strawberries from this farm and they are delicious.
Re: I have toured the pasona O2 Farm in Japan and taken notes
by kritika kapadia on Jun 02, 2010 01:29 PM
Hey.
When you have mutated kids from all the genetically modified, fake food (which by they way is completely environmental unfriendly) that you have eaten, in an artificial habitat- be sure you call me for their naming ceremony ok? I will help you find some good, sci-fi names for them! : D YAAY!
Re: I have toured the pasona O2 Farm in Japan and taken notes
by kieran dsouza on Jun 04, 2010 12:25 PM
why do all this nonsense? bottom line is that farm land should NOT be usurped by Industry. We should support farmer in his struggle to protect his land from land grabbing politicians/industrialists
Re: Indian farmers need to modernize, Think out of the box !
by Sheetal Kaur on Jun 01, 2010 03:01 AM
Strawberry etc are Okey. We in UK and Europe have what is called continuous farming for items such as lettuce and other stuff where a seed starts at one end on a sheet of damp paper and eventually travel across a bed of water by the time it is reaches the other end it is ready for packaging yes there are other processes in between. But try growing Wheat.Barley,Rice in doors and see if it can be done. It is not possible. There are plenty areas with good land upon which industry can be built,so why destroy farmland. If farm land decreases and population increases where is India going to feed them from. factories will produce some work for those who lost their land in process but for how long. eventually we will have to look outside for our supply of food grain. FARMING LAND AND FARMERS ARE CRUCIAL TO THE ECONOMY AND SHOULD NOT BE DESTROYED BUT ENCOURAGED TO INCREASE PRODUCTION.
Re: Re: Indian farmers need to modernize, Think out of the box !
by Vishnu Sharma on Jun 01, 2010 03:10 AM
I agree, the current farm land must not diminish or be destroyed. Especially the ones which grow wheat, rice, pulses etc.
We can have these SEZs in coastal areas, barren areas and near Rajasthan.
Re: Re: Re: Indian farmers need to modernize, Think out of the bo
by jhonny k on Jun 01, 2010 03:18 AM
Govt of india has planned to screw its public with 1trillion dollar bill for the so called infrastructure development in next 5yr plan.
If we don't stop this nonsense then noone can stop us from becoming slaves or beggars.
Re: Re: Indian farmers need to modernize, Think out of the box !
by adhir mehta on Jun 01, 2010 08:08 AM
I totally agree with you. At the same time I would like to emphasize that government which also means we all working through the government, can not be insensitive to the people even if they are not educated. That precisely is the reason why people sometimes get rid of foreign governments. ‘Avatar’ the Hollywood film tries to explain this, if someone has a heart for it.
Re: Re: Indian farmers need to modernize, Think out of the box !
by jhonny k on Jun 01, 2010 03:09 AM
I agree with u.
Its not that govt is dumb.. they very well know the fact that farming is the life line of any nation. But unfortunately govt has sinister objective on its own citizen on whose tax payment they live life like a parasite.
Re: Indian farmers need to modernize, Think out of the box !
by jhonny k on Jun 01, 2010 03:03 AM
The biggest problem in india is knowledge is not allowed to spread freely..
Govt and pesticide/fertilizer made farmers life miserable. This is the root cause of farmer suicides.
Japanese scientists have experimented successfully with the rapid development of so-called “vertical farms” - giant multi-storey greenhouses in urban centers - to feed their population.
Vertical farms could offer year-round production of organic food, using recycled water with no weather-related crop failures and reduced use of fossil fuels.
One vertical farm with an architectural foot print of one square city block and rising to 30 stories could provide enough nutrition to comfortably accommodate the needs of 50,000 people employing technologies currently available.
We use artifical UV lighting for plants, vegetables and crops in these vertical farms.
When it has demonstrated to be feasible we need to adopt this method in India.
Re: There are other ways to farm in INDIA than what we are doing
by Sheetal Kaur on Jun 01, 2010 03:07 AM
One has to be rich to start with to buy land and build a 30 story building on it with all the facilities to grow and farm the food. MOST FARMERS ARE NOT THAT RICH. MOST OF THEM LIVE HAND TO MOUTH LIFE. PLACES LIKE JAPAN DO NOT HAVE AS MUCH FARMING SPACE AS INDIA HAVE AND THE RICH ARE THE ONE CASHING ON THE VF IDEOLOGY. 90% OF INDIAN POPULATION CAN'T BUY A PIECE OF LAND AND BUILD A HOUSE ON IT LIVE AND YOU GUYS ARE TALKING OF 30 STORY BUILDINGS. "We use artificial UV lighting for plants" in india we can't even guarantee a non interrupted power supply how is any one going to maintain required amount of light work pumps to feed the plants etc.
Re: Re: There are other ways to farm in INDIA than what we are do
by jhonny k on Jun 01, 2010 03:16 AM
Good points. u seem to have got good knowledge abt farming.. i really appreciate it.
Most of the ppl in india... especially so called educated one live in fools paradise.. They can not differentiate between life and a video game.
Re: Re: Re: There are other ways to farm in INDIA than what we ar
by Vishnu Sharma on Jun 01, 2010 03:24 AM
The problem with Poor people in India, is that they do not DREAM BIG.
If you cannot DREAM BIG or imagine on a vast scale you are doomed.
That is when idiotic ideologies like NAXALISM and Marxism sound appealing. When people cannot think and start envying people who think big, IMPLEMENT and become successful.
Death TO MARXISM !
Death to left ideologues for bringing about the end of imagination in INDIA !
Re: Re: Re: Re: There are other ways to farm in INDIA than what w
by swaminathankt kt on Jun 01, 2010 07:51 AM
Instead , DREAM BIG of controlling the parallel economy your country is reeling under. DREAM BIG of bringing all the money held up in SWIZZ. DREAM BIG of providing atleast a whole meal for millions of poor of your country. DREAM BIG to provide a corruption free government. DREAM BIG of preventing thousands of farmers suiciding for want of means. DREAM BIG of setting up industries in rural and backward areas instead of SEZ DREAM BIG of displaying minimum decency of compensating reasonably before depriving of a poor farmer of his little holding. DREAM BIG of involving people and not rich men making them richer. DREAM BIG of how hard it is to bear if one hits you below the belt. DREAM BIG how to avoid adding wrath to poor men's life DREAM BIG of providing a free and fair law and order situation to every nook and corner of the country. DREAM BIG of how ti win over the poor farmers of this country instead of cheating them and dooping them. DREAM BIG of how you acquire everything in life by paying , and how you pay scanty amount to a farmer for taking away his lifeline. DREAM BIG of setting up industries which are a must for development , but not at the cost of suppressing thousands of poor. DREAM BIG of your country wherein live millions of poor and few hundreds of rich , and how not to hit the poor "below the belt", for want of appeasing a few unscruplous elements in the govt. setup. DREAM BIG of how to avoid growth of unrest in INDIA.
