Agriculture needs better innovation, not technology

Ref: Agriculture needs better innovation, not technology

Andy Hall and Susanna Thorp

We live in an era of unprecedented technological advancement. So why does technical change in agriculture continue to be slow and patchy?

One possible explanation is that the importance of farmers' capacity to access and use information for innovation has been overshadowed by the conventional view that change is driven primarily by new technology and farmer-led technical improvements.

Similarly, insufficient attention may have been given to the fact that the capacity for innovation in agriculture is influenced not only by farmers' skills and resources, but also by the wider network of links and relationships in which farmers are embedded, which help ideas to diffuse and find new uses.

Interaction of urban and rural

On the similar lines of Srinivas Sir (multiplex in a village) apurv and ashwini, we can try to develop recreational space in villages that can connect it to people from industry and urban areas. These activities can promote cultural programs, exhibitions, conferences, organic food production and other interactive sessions with villagers and people from different field. We can think “how to bring people from industries to villages

Creation of food transportation Hubs.

A better solution for transportation of vegetable or agro- products from villages to cities can develop competitive thinking, which can further result to better quality products. If we provide or develop some solution in existing interstate or intrastate transportation system i.e. buses, train etc.

Use of biogas plant

There is a village near Kanpur, Bhauti. They are using Bio-gas plant for their daily requirement i.e. electricity cooking etc. and had developed a system where they can use biogas even in their cars. In many villages in U.P whole village have some series of 15-20 biogas plan that provides electricity in village, as power cut is a big issue in villages