Tamil Nadu – organic state- first steps..
There is a committee set up by the TN Govt’s Horticulture department
to draft an Organic Policy for the state.
And BTW did I tell u? yours truly has been nominated as one
of the Committee members of the Drafting Committee on Organic Farming Policy of
Tamil Nadu.
(claps, head bowing and all that)
The 1st meeting of all the committee members took
place last week and it was such a nice feeling..This is one of the highly
functional IAS officers we hear about who as a collector in yesteryears did a
great job. Also as an IT sec (or some such like posting on e governance) he
freaked out and even brought in open source!
My wish is he brings open source in to agriculture and seeds
esp:-)
He started off the meeting so crisp by stating the
objectives and even went on to state that we shall have only 10 sittings and
gave a deadline by which the 1st draft should come up.
And only then he went on to the introductions..such was his
serious start! And he did crack jokes, even on his own post and his own
bureaucracy style officers and so on..
Iam hopeful and wish and think TN will have an organic
policy soon and hope to contribute out there too..
So if u do have any suggestions, ideas – pl do share and I
can take it to the meeting and take it forward.
posted by Ananthoo @ 5:32 AM
10 Comments:
At September 05, 2012 7:20 AM,
Low Impact Travels said…
Congrats Ananthoo, you are reaching greater heights!
At September 06, 2012 9:31 AM,
Zoya said…
WOW Sir!! This is so encouraging.. Congrats to you.. Already dreaming about all the wonders this team is going to do to our state and the benefits future 'farmers' who will be running away from cities are going to reap. BTW, reading your previous post, wanted to inform you that I hav'nt received my copy of the magazine after the first 2 months.
At September 06, 2012 9:08 PM,
Ananthoo said…
thanks suresh..
@ Nayaki- thx..hoping to make some dent..about the magazine, we have been posting for sure..will chk again..can u chk once with ur postman n get back to me? BTW u in town??
At September 07, 2012 1:21 AM,
hima anugula said…
good start ananthoo,
hope they don't make it mandatory to have expensive certifications at the producer level. also, they should promote native breed cattle as they are most suited to local conditions as well as give potent dung/urine.
At September 08, 2012 4:01 AM,
PS said…
First of all congrats, I am presently in UK, here we have a concept known as Allotments, after reading your posts as well as http://csm-fanaa.blogspot.co.uk/. I started my hand in growing and blogging about organic food.
I would love to have the same concept of Allotments implemented in Tamil Nadu.
At September 09, 2012 2:54 AM,
Musings said…
This is great Ananthoo, I have been an avid reader of your blog for quite sometime. I know you would cover organic farming, my only request is to include urban organic farming in the schema of things.
At September 16, 2012 11:14 AM,
surendar said…
There is economics that need to be addressed..
a) Producer side - Explicit subsidies for going organic ( we farmers like this word the most ) - help the farmer ease in to the new 'old-way'; for ex: Org farming is fairly labor intensive - can state help out with extending the 100 day employment scheme to horticulture
b) Supply chain: Enabling marketing the produce; can the state setup organic retail spots and collection centers? as producers, there are only a handful of stores that we can take our produce; this year, I ended up selling my mangoes to the standard mediators for lack of convenient collection models
c) Consumer side - having org food today is a fad for the well-heeled..for demand to grow significantly, price parity with non-organic food is a pre-requisite. technically, there is little reason for organic food to have such a high premium over non-org food. the subsidization that non-organic enjoys by way of fertilizers etc,eventually factors into the consumer's wallet..
The non-economic part of organic food:
a) Non-organic farming seems easy to the farmer - its almost like engineering; there is one solution to each problem. so, as a farmer concerned about an outbreak, using a potent chemical pesticide that 'kills' seems easier than some complex karaisals that are repelling ( the violent treatment over ahimsa..)
b) Shelf-life: this is the supply chain side. with shloads of chemicals, the non-org food simply seems to be forever young on the shelves..even the best org food looks weather beaten :(;
c) consumers - org food is simply not located conveniently; its an effort today
At September 16, 2012 9:14 PM,
Ananthoo said…
@ anugula - thx..yeah lots like local cattle to certification need to be looked at..lets see how the govt wants to proceed..
@prasanna - am elated to know:-) good for u..that was an idea some one brought up in the meeting..there are hurdles in execution of this in India..but pl do keep posting ur comments and ideas..
@ Musings - :-) thanks for visiting..yes will keep that in mind..am of the view backyard (terrace or any space) gardening is most important to counter chemicals, corporatisation, misappropriation of seeds,etc
@Surendar - very true...all observations noted..thanks..
At September 19, 2012 12:20 PM,
Zoya said…
No Sir. Not in town. Will mail you soon.
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