Bikash Choudhury
Statistics has never been a perfect science; not because of
its central tendency, but, the method, scope and scale of primary data
collection brings a lot of social and cultural bias which eventually influence
the result of the study. However, I am no Statistics basher. In 1700 A.D Indian
share in the Global income was 22.6 %( India-Pakistan-Bangladesh) which
was just 0.7% lower than the share of Income of entire Europe that stood at
23.3%, then; the paradox lies in the free fall of Indian income share to 4.6%
in 1995, in about 300 yrs. India was a rich Agricultural country in History
through its traditional farming technique which remain sustainable century
after century in contrast to the so called modern farming which has upped the
volume a great deal; while, its value in terms of quality of human consumption
and health remains questionable; as the residual chemical content in the food
and vegetables remain beyond tolerable limits. That is putting the standard of
general health in the country in the harms way and therefore, need to be
revisited. And, perhaps therefore the demand for Organic food is growing in all
across the World and projected to be worth $104 billion by 2015. History could
actually repeat it self and India ’s
share in Global Income could return to the level of 20% in 1700 A.D by
completely returning our Agriculture to Organic; while, adopting those modern
techniques of Agri Science & Bio-technology. First of all, our Big Modern
Retail chains like Big Bazaar, Reliance Fresh and others should immediately
open a separate Organic Food Counter or a Store if it were financially viable
at the outset to give the Organic farming movement a leg up which would
probably double the area under certified organic farming in just 3 yrs and
therefore enhance our value based Agriculture export to potential western
countries and capturing the minds and markets in a very short period of time.
If they can sell Technology at premium all these years; can’t we sale healthy
food at a super premium? After all human being would consume food personally
and not the technology.
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