Om's Blog

      In our country, farming is generally done for subsistence purpose not for commercial purpose. Most of our farmers are small and marginal even landless labourers and share croppers. The average land area of a farmer in our country is 1.5 ha whereas it is 250 ha in other developed countries like USA. With the increasing population, average farm size is declining, which is the major hinderance for the development in agriculture sector because it is difficult for a resource poor marginal farmer to adopt new technology, farm machinery and power, irrigation or any other innovative farm practices. They can not take measures to increase the productivity and it is difficult for them to protect the crop from disease, pest or environmental hazards. In this context, direct benefit transfer schemes like KALIA and PM-KISAN could be effective in strengthening farmers’ socioeconomic status, if implemented properly.                   ...

                 In the words of Famous Odia poet Gangadhar Meher " krusi kale unnata sakala unnati, krusi bina na kantha na pantha , kahin ba anya gati he "  which means agriculture is the base of all type of development and we can not neglect it as there is no alternative of agriculture . Half of the people of our country directly depend upon agriculture and we all are directly or indirectly related to it. So, the distress in farming is a major challenge for us. Despite of many efforts by the central and state govt the result is not satisfactory. Because the main reason of distress is the poor policy and planning and their poor implementation. So, let us discuss its management in a broad sense at the policy making level.                  As agriculture is a state subject, state govt is more responsible for the development of farming and farmers. The union govt has also its role. In modern ...

           On the auspicious occasion of Ratha Yatra, when lakhs of devotees are pulling the chariots of the lord of the universe , I am siting in my room thinking about the greatness of the god and writing this. Lord Jagannath, who is the head of the universe, teaches us great lesson from his activities.           The most important lesson is that the one who does wrong gets its result. Even God is not spared . Lets talk about the ' Laxmi Purana ' by the great Odia poet Balaram Das . It teaches us great social values and lessons. As we all know the story, Maa Laxmi gets pleased with the worship of Shriya Chandaluni, who is a lower caste women. With her prayer Maa Laxmi visits her. But this is not acceptable to Lord Jagannath and his elder brother Lord Balaram . So with the advice of Balaram, Jagannath gives order to Maa laxmi to leave shree Mandir. But the story does not end here..         The above decision...