Traditional agriculture in Uttarakhand was devised for subsistence, food for the family, done on levelled strips of land carved out of hill slopes. Migration of able bodied man power, unattended fields damaged by soil erosion, changing ecology resulting in excessive growth of crop damaging animals like monkeys, pigs, rabbits, etc has almost destroyed the traditional farming system of UK. What is now needed is to use the land for commercial farming of locality based most-fit crops-mix in a scientific way using modern farm management methods , specific to the sub himalayan topography and varying altitudes climate.
How to do it? It requires new and conducive agricultural policy change, it requires new farm ownership? land lease and rental laws, it requires willing and trained manpower, it requires economy of scale sizes of business enterprises, it requires producer friendly marketing organisation and it requires various sizes of mechanised agril tools , different sizes of packging, transport, grading, storage and cold storage facilities and thorough knowledge of related consumer markets.
I invite readers to please let me know the areas of their interest so that I can serialise my advices in a systematic manner.
Thanks, BSR.