Coimbatore: "Educated agriculture workforce have to explore options to stand by the farmers to ensure that impactful contribution is made to agriculture", said Dr P Jayaraman, member Krishnamurti International Agriculture Development Foundation (KIADEF).
Coimbatore: "Educated agriculture workforce have to explore options to stand by the farmers to ensure that impactful contribution is made to agriculture", said Dr P Jayaraman, member Krishnamurti International Agriculture Development Foundation (KIADEF).
Speaking at the inauguration of Centre of Excellence in Organicology and Regenesis of Agroecology (CEORA), in Coimbatore on Friday, he said scientific intent, innovation intensity and ground level transformation are possible only if the work force take responsibility to come back to agriculture.
The illiterate agriculture work force require confidence to depend on farming, which the educated have to offer, he added.
He was of the opinion that the way how food value chain and agriculture are fragmented, even educated agriculture work force seems scattered as an event less connected to core issues. There is a need for high impact transformation to agriculture education stem.
Earlier, he said there are efforts towards sustainable agriculture, organic practices, but it is just not enough to meet the enormity of challenges in front.
Jayaraman said the stage has come where the talk should be about sustainability of agriculture instead of sustainable agriculture.
The relative rate of annual recovery in terms of water depletion, micro plastics and contaminants, soil life and genetic diversity, as indicator are negative or rather destructive.
"We cannot sustain or work on sustainability, when regenesis is becoming inevitable", Jayaraman opined.
He defined the current state of agriculture development, as Agroecological Wealth Exploitative Agriculture Development (AWEAD).
He said the vision is to move towards a stage of Agroecological Wealth Regenrative Agriculture Development (AWRAD).
KIADEF effort is to liberate agriculture from AWEAD through various projects like managed aquifers recharge support, preventative practices and new agronomic agenda and through creating of marked non GMO zones, he noted.
After inaugurating CEORA, Dr. Sylendra Babu, DGP, Railway, Tamil Nadu, emphasised the impact of climate change and asserted the need of alternative practices in agriculture. Citing the challanges ahead, he highlighted the importance of organic farming with proper scientific intervention.
He recalled his days at agriculture university and role of former TNAU Professor and managing trustee of KIADEF Dr. S. Krishnamurthy in shaping the life of several people.
The event was also attended by Prof K K Krishnamurti, Chairman and Managing Trustee, KIADEF, Prof Dr.N. Kumar, Vice Chancellor, TNAU and Shunchonngam Jatak Chiru, Principal Secretary, Directorate of Agriculture Marketing and Agriculture Business, Government of Tamil Nadu.
Speaking at the inauguration of Centre of Excellence in Organicology and Regenesis of Agroecology (CEORA), in Coimbatore on Friday, he said scientific intent, innovation intensity and ground level transformation are possible only if the work force take responsibility to come back to agriculture.
The illiterate agriculture work force require confidence to depend on farming, which the educated have to offer, he added.
He was of the opinion that the way how food value chain and agriculture are fragmented, even educated agriculture work force seems scattered as an event less connected to core issues. There is a need for high impact transformation to agriculture education stem.
Earlier, he said there are efforts towards sustainable agriculture, organic practices, but it is just not enough to meet the enormity of challenges in front.
Jayaraman said the stage has come where the talk should be about sustainability of agriculture instead of sustainable agriculture.
The relative rate of annual recovery in terms of water depletion, micro plastics and contaminants, soil life and genetic diversity, as indicator are negative or rather destructive.
"We cannot sustain or work on sustainability, when regenesis is becoming inevitable", Jayaraman opined.
He defined the current state of agriculture development, as Agroecological Wealth Exploitative Agriculture Development (AWEAD).
He said the vision is to move towards a stage of Agroecological Wealth Regenrative Agriculture Development (AWRAD).
KIADEF effort is to liberate agriculture from AWEAD through various projects like managed aquifers recharge support, preventative practices and new agronomic agenda and through creating of marked non GMO zones, he noted.
After inaugurating CEORA, Dr. Sylendra Babu, DGP, Railway, Tamil Nadu, emphasised the impact of climate change and asserted the need of alternative practices in agriculture. Citing the challanges ahead, he highlighted the importance of organic farming with proper scientific intervention.
He recalled his days at agriculture university and role of former TNAU Professor and managing trustee of KIADEF Dr. S. Krishnamurthy in shaping the life of several people.
The event was also attended by Prof K K Krishnamurti, Chairman and Managing Trustee, KIADEF, Prof Dr.N. Kumar, Vice Chancellor, TNAU and Shunchonngam Jatak Chiru, Principal Secretary, Directorate of Agriculture Marketing and Agriculture Business, Government of Tamil Nadu.