MeraPahad Community Of Uttarakhand Lovers

Dajew,

I have just flashed a mail on many gropus.


We have invited a lot people on this subject. Hope views from others will come.

Let us see.

to my belief cultivation of high altitude plants like organic crops or medicinal plants or ayurvedic plants would serve the purpose ....need more educational and technical awareness among inhabitants ,,,,may be it can be done if we ourself take the initiatives ,,

Mehta ji,

Mechanized farming can only be done if we can come with village groups. As for individuals it would be almost impossible to bear the initial investment, running & maintenence cost.

1) I feel that due to the rising population, the individual landing holding is decreasing day by day.
Most of our young brothers/sisters are coming to plains for their survival, so we no more take farming as a profession.

2) Currently in hills the type of crops we grow are not even able to feed our farmers family forget about  taking any profit out of it. An awareness about the various cash crops needs be created among the farmers. 

3) Small groups within the villages has to be made so that a large chunk of land can be available. A co-operative scheme can be introduced  & contributing farmers shall be offered the shares on the basis of their land holding.

4) We should approach the agriculture universities, We already have  GBPUAT in our own state since 1960 but I dout that  the farmers of our state has taken any benefit from there. So some ground works needs to be done so that a specific module(from crop selection to taking it directly to the market) suits to our climate & terrains can be prepared. I feel that Organic farming can become our USP as its on a high now a days.

I am sure that with a little bit of guidence  our hard working people can have the ability to make it happen.

Good luck!!

Manoj

friends...
nice to see some topic close to me and my profision..
  as we are discussing the uttaranchal agricultur that is basically the hill agriculture we are talking of.
Land consolidation: the biggest problem in the uttaranchal farming is the consolidation of the land. there is no laws till date and not implemented something also. because of that every one has a hali (a unit of land measurement in kumaun hills).even one person has some land which are at different locations so thatone can not all well and so no control on the tresspassers be animals or others. and e can not think of doing the volume business.
Marketing: other thing frds, marketing even you cangrow some important crops there which is not going to fech you more because of the connuctivity with the city or the consumption hub.
Production Cooperatives: as you will find the land holding very small the individual farmer can not bring the produce to the market hub, nither he can attract the buyer. so need to promote the cooperative ma  be 2-3 villages with atleast 1/2 of their land for the prticular crop and will commonly market the produce.
No Mandi Sameti or Mandi: from kumaun hills we have to come to haldwani mandi to sell produce which mans a impossile thing for a farmer sitting at the pithoragarh almora, champawat bageshwar etc....so that is the another factor which can be considared
now crops: fds conventional crops can give us competitive advantage, if u start producing rice & wheat in hills compare to plain areas than obviously plains will have edge on that so adoption or selection of the crops fruits vegetables lowers is the mostimportant thing, for that farmers need money....
credit...
prcessing
small scale industries.
the brand uttarakhand or uttarakumaun sth can be ...
frdshope i have written a lot and hardly any one will read so many things..so stopping here still there are a lot many things hich can be discussed but its very easy to discuss adn give idea but the mst important thing is "IMPLEMENTATION"
 
Have a nice time
Regards
Prakash
(Munsiyari) Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand
 


M S Mehta <mp.mehta@sify.com> wrote:
Dosto,
 
 
As you are aware, a lot of changes have come in living standard in hill areas with the speed of modernization. However, I feel the system of doing agriculture has not changed at all. New generation find it hard to work on field now-a-days. This is somewhere resulting in migration from pahad. People put a lot of hardwork and but a little of it.
 
There is need to introduce some kind of  technique in our way of doing agriculture (Kheti) like portable tractor etc. We have posted some photos of it on forum. A new thread has sbeen started on this issue and we would like to invite you for your suggestions / comments.
 
 Kindly view of following link and give your views after logging-in :
http://www.merapahad.com/forum/index.php/topic,63.0.html
For any views, kindly log-in the Forum:
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 Jai  Bhart, Jai Uttarkahand. M S Mehta



 

Dear Dr.Darvind Dajew,,,,as usual m alway uncompromising fan of yours…luv 2 read all ur articles/mails n never get bores too…so plz plz do share the things spec related to agricultural cultivation etc. I knw there you have immense ground experience….Jai Hoo Upreti logoon ki…n ur NANO concept is awesome ,,,, lets circulate a mail in all Uttarakhandi groups that its not been taken from the nano (10^-9^) rather frm our native slang…ek bar fir se Upreti Jew ki Jai hooo.

Totally impressed with Farswan ji as well, you people are expert in the field and its our privilege and honor to have your high impact thoughts, plz keep sharing such valuable words.
Infact Mehta Ji has zeroxed your mail in Mera Pahad forum as well, thnx to him too.
http://www.merapahad.com/forum/index.php/topic,63.0.html



Ab miku jyadaa ke patt nhaa hoo maharaaj,,,,usi to mi THULI DHOTI waal baman bhoi per haan agar tum loog kwe project suru karla to mi HAU lai bai dune hoo,,ekdam se-zhatttt kaibe

I am also looking for someone who can suggest me the best crop possible at my village, we have got plenty of space and excellent irrigation/transportation facilities as well….Upreti jew/Farswan jew may help me out….i can provide you the geographic details.
 
Tumar dagaru
Sanjupahari