Agriculture and Environment Education

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There is wealth of information related to Agriculture available in this folder which is useful for NGOs to link Energy Sustainability and Agriculture especially from  point of view of bio-fuels  and integrating other renewable technologies for poverty reduction in rural areas. This material is a result of years of hard work of Fr.(Dr.) K T Chandy who has authorized INSEDA to include the CD material prepared by him in this CD. 

 

Instructions for the User

 

·        This Folder contains 621 files in 76 folders. Folders 00 to 04 contain only one file each. Folders 05 to 75 (foders or series) contain 616 files or booklets in 71 Series. All the files (621 in number) are in MS word.

 

·        Folder No. 00 provides the necessary information and instructions to the user.

 

·        Folder No. 1 contains the Number wise list of booklets as every booklet is assigned a number. The list also gives the Title of the booklet and the Series along with Series Code in parenthesis.

 

·       Folder No. 2 contains the list of 616 booklets in alphabetical order. You can open any of the booklets just by clicking on its title in the list. Folder No 1 and Folder No 3 are useful to locate or identify the booklet you need and come to the Folder No2 to open it.

 

·        Folder No. 3 contains Series wise list of booklets (616 booklets).  It also provides the booklet Number, Series Code and the prices of booklets in rupees for the English and Hindi version of booklets.

 

·        To open a booklet find out the title of the booklet from the Number-wise list (Folder No. 1) or from the Series wise list (Folder No. 3) and then go to the alphabetical list to locate the same title and then click on it.  The booklet will open.

 

·        Folder No. 4 gives the bio-data of the author cum editor for information. These booklets are the result of 1430 training programmes he conducted over a period of thirty years for a wide range of people from the grass root level to government officials at various places in India. 

 

·        Folder Nos.  5 to 75  contain the 71 series. By clicking any of these folders you get the file names of the booklets under each series. Then by clicking any of the files you can open the booklets under that series. Similarly all other booklets in all other folders.

 

·        Most of the booklets contain tables and figures in support of the text in each booklet.

 

 

·        All the figures are in compressed form to save the space. Hence the figures may look unclear.  To enlarge the figures for better clarity click on the figure and then pull the corners or sides.

 

·        The classification of topics is not absolute as several of them can be classified under more than one series at the same time.  At the time of preparation of these booklets each topic was fitted into one classification or other according to the specific need and rationale of that time. Hence the user may employ his own logic to classify these booklets.

 

·        Many people helped me in preparing the topics; but it is impossible to mention them all by name  as the duration of this work spanned over three decades. I do remember each and every one of them and I thank them all from the bottom of my heart.  However special acknowledgements to B.K. Dwivedi, Mita Majumdar, George Thomas, A. K. Gupta, T.U. Sarojani. K.P.Singh, V.K.Singh, S.K. Pande, S.K. Yadev, Mariam Chandy, N. Rajeswari, Archana Sinha S.R. Batra, O.S. Tyagi, V.S. Bede, Janaki Chundi and Alka Srivastava. My special thanks to K. Samu who was my efficient and dedicated  secretary who prepared the final draft of all the booklets.

 

·        This is a compilation of the scientific knowledge available at a particular period of  time and this CD claims no more than presenting the basic information under each topic.  Hence there may be all types of mistakes: factual and otherwise as the editing of these topics is done single handedly by the author himself and not professionally.  The user may apply his own corrections and improvements.

 

·        DEDICATED to the Millions of Poor Farmers in the world Including the Tribals Toiling all Their Life to Feed the World Population and yet they Themselves Go Hungry and Live in Abject Poverty. WHENEVER WE HAVE A MEAL IT IS THEIR FLESH WE EAT AND IT IS THEIR BLOOD WE DRINK.

 

1.    People Every  where talk about Justice to every one and there are many religious and secular, voluntary and governmental organizations and individuals engaged in establishment of social and Political justice. But they seem to forget that the root cause of all the exploitation and injustices is economic.  As in many other things there are priorities in the process of achieving social justice.  For any human being the first thing in Social Justice is to have enough food items at least to meet the daily nutrient requirements recommended by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The cost of balanced diet for a family of 5-6 amounts, according to the present market rate, to about 50,000 per annum. To have a decent human living with sufficient clothes, housing, good education for the  children to get remunerative occupation, good health faculties and all other nonfood requirements required for an average family amounts to at least 4 to 5 times the amount required for food. In other words the ratio between the expenditures on food and nonfood items has to be 1: 4-5. (Samuelson Paul A. and Nordhuas William, D. (1989). Income–Consumption–Saving-relationship, in  Economics: Mc-Graw-Hill Book Company, New York, 13th Ed.  P. 126-127.)That means to have a decent human life for an average family of 5-6 requires Rs 2,50,000 net income. Is there any farmer in India who makes up that much net income from farming? A farmer is Born in Debt, Live in Debt and Die in Debt. This is the actual situation of the farmers in India and probably all the farmers in the world.

 

 

Dr. (Fr) K. T. Chandy S.J.

(Specialist in Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Agri. Economics and Watershed & Environmental Management)