Sharad Pawar has been an agriculture minister many times. We know that it not his expertise in the matter, which gets him the post. Rather it is a cash rich portfolio and people of Maharashtra always arm this man with enough MPs so he can bargain. So what can we expect from a minister who has an immense hunger for wealth, no scruples and no expertise or desire to make the agricultural sector of India reach its full potential? To answer that, I would like to you’re attention to the title of the following msn article which essentially speaks for itself. Being the central agricultural minister Mr. Sharad Pawar could not control farmers committing suicide in his own state of Maharashtra, let alone lead a nationwide green revolution. Of course when it comes to moneymaking scams, he has done very well. He has done so by becoming the chief of one of the biggest cash cows, the ICC chief. His involvement is suspected in almost all the mega scams right from stamp paper to 2G. The man’s ineptitude and greed were on display last year when he refused to distribute millions of tons of food grain that were rotting in the rain due to lack of proper storage and government granary in spite the Supreme Court orders. On the other hand we have Bhai Narendra Modi, who has been vilified by people unfit to carry his waste, leading his state into a double digit growth in the agricultural sector. We all know Gujarat is semi arid and yet despite a drought in 2002-03, it has showed a double-digit growth consistently. Why is that? It is because Bhai Narendra Modi is a leader in the true sense of the word. He leads with brains, heart and example. People of Guarat respond to his leadership by doing all the right things. That is why the entire state prospers. Are we surprised that even a leftist Gandhian like Anna Hazare has acknowledged the need for replication of the Gujarat experiment at a national level. Of course Anna’s agenda is India, not pseudo-secularism and vote bank politics.
Opposed to Gujarat in various ways, we have a fertile state like West Bengal where the Communists have touted their pro-poor policies and land reform have managed to run the agriculture sector into the ground like they have everything else.
The choice for us could not be starker.
Mr Pawar, learn from Narendra Modi
Agriculture Minister Pawar has to learn a few lessons from Gujarat’s silent Green Revolution
New Delhi: Even as the Planning Commission says that India's desire to hit double-digit economic growth is being constrained, among other things, by the inability of the farm sector to grow at an annual average rate of 4 per cent a year, largely semi-arid Gujarat, with poor agro-ecological endowments, has reported an average growth rate of close to 9 per cent per annum over the past decade.
Gujarat's agricultural performance this past decade has turned out to be as impressive as its performance on the industrial front. What are the secrets of Chief Minister Narendra Modi's "Gujarat model of farm development"?
The article can be read at: http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5134675
Gujarat posts 12.8% agriculture growth, highest in India
Whether it is investments or his drives for improved child nutrition, girl child enrolment, hospital deliveries or rural sanitation, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is never short of bragging points. Now, he has more reason for immodesty. Against a national average of 2.8% in a five year period to 2006-07, the latest year for which state-wise data is available, Gujarat has become the fastest growing state agriculturally. It clocked a growth rate of 12.8% after a decline during the previous five years and higher growth during the early 1990s, but a smart bounce nonetheless in view of a severe drought in 2002-03.
Ashok Gulati, Director-in-Asia, The International Food Policy Research Institute, said, "There is a mystery a bit of it but that is also a way that Gujarat can show to the rest of the country that agriculture is not a 2% growth, it can be 12% growth story per annum."
In contrast, West Bengal is the worst performing in agriculture. Farming in the state is in secular decline from 5.3% in the early 1990s to 3.9% during the next five years, and less than half that growth during the latest five year period. Poor farming performance should be a cause of concern for the left front government that parades its land reforms.
The article can be read at: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/gujarat-posts-128-agriculture-growth-highestindia_388239.html
The picture is from: http://deshgujarat.com/2011/01/21/gujarat-signs-ppp-with-john-deere-on-farm-mechanization/
Mr Pawar, learn from Narendra Modi
Agriculture Minister Pawar has to learn a few lessons from Gujarat’s silent Green Revolution
New Delhi: Even as the Planning Commission says that India's desire to hit double-digit economic growth is being constrained, among other things, by the inability of the farm sector to grow at an annual average rate of 4 per cent a year, largely semi-arid Gujarat, with poor agro-ecological endowments, has reported an average growth rate of close to 9 per cent per annum over the past decade.
Gujarat's agricultural performance this past decade has turned out to be as impressive as its performance on the industrial front. What are the secrets of Chief Minister Narendra Modi's "Gujarat model of farm development"?
The article can be read at: http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5134675
Gujarat posts 12.8% agriculture growth, highest in India
Whether it is investments or his drives for improved child nutrition, girl child enrolment, hospital deliveries or rural sanitation, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is never short of bragging points. Now, he has more reason for immodesty. Against a national average of 2.8% in a five year period to 2006-07, the latest year for which state-wise data is available, Gujarat has become the fastest growing state agriculturally. It clocked a growth rate of 12.8% after a decline during the previous five years and higher growth during the early 1990s, but a smart bounce nonetheless in view of a severe drought in 2002-03.
Ashok Gulati, Director-in-Asia, The International Food Policy Research Institute, said, "There is a mystery a bit of it but that is also a way that Gujarat can show to the rest of the country that agriculture is not a 2% growth, it can be 12% growth story per annum."
In contrast, West Bengal is the worst performing in agriculture. Farming in the state is in secular decline from 5.3% in the early 1990s to 3.9% during the next five years, and less than half that growth during the latest five year period. Poor farming performance should be a cause of concern for the left front government that parades its land reforms.
The article can be read at: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/gujarat-posts-128-agriculture-growth-highestindia_388239.html
The picture is from: http://deshgujarat.com/2011/01/21/gujarat-signs-ppp-with-john-deere-on-farm-mechanization/
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