Out of a few questions that I was asked from a group of people on agriculture and allied subjects, the most common question was circling around the current practice of farming that is clearly visible of monoculture. I have put the word visible in bold. As I would like to bring a certain context to this in my article eventually. What is visible to what is ground reality may be two different things. And I would like to bring about this difference in my explanation to the visibility around monoculture. In continuation with this there was a question related to this topic on monoculture generally tied to large scale farming . We will also try to understand how the risks in agriculture pans out for the farmers of certain size and at a certain location, to take certain decisions. The next most common response I have received was to understand better on the farming pattern of cultivating same crop specific to a geography and eventually ending up loosing price to excessive supply to mark...
Starting to write this has been the most difficult part. The issues lingering around right now have been one of the most challenging ones. All my life; until I realized that after one turns 26, life moves on without brakes, I had to throw myself into situations to derive a better world view. And in the process of mindless, directionless stints, I ended up tangling up myself into a number of real situations. I am 32 now and when I look back, there are hundreds of things that I would have done differently. Nevertheless the learnings it has provided and the space it has put me in right now is something that I would like to build upon for the rest of my life. I ask myself, sometimes, whether I have the energy to start afresh and pause, in search of an inner calling. It has never come yet. So, I decided to persevere on what I have right now and not think too much. On that front, “I am interested in contributing my working life to the betterment of the farmers and the allied rural ecosystem”...