pentaiah wrote:Absolutely born into a family with farming traditions. I have witnessed first hand the wastage and the consequent inability use mechanization of process.
Most importantly the land that is not truly utilized to full potential are the bunds erected between each small plots by subdivision with in a small holding, for reasons to block water from seepage especially in paddy fields.
Although for the second crop starting in Jan the bunds are utilized to grow ( to a small extent) pulses like red gram black gram green gram some times chenna dal or planting coco nut trees.
For most farmers farm land is a lifeline and Bunding is needed to secure it, and they built a farming strategy around it over time, however in this age, bunding can be replaced with secure digital maps
(courtesy Bhuvan) and ownership can be considered as land equity
these changes lead to collective or co-operative farming methods, and the derivative benefits include,
1) Crop insurance where in the scale ensures that individual farmers are't at risk curbing suicides
2) Elimination of middlemen for better pricing
3) Due to increased mechanization, manual labor which was the norm so far can be done away with and the 'more hands needed in the field' mindset of the rural folks changes leading to population control
At the field level, Bunding can be realized by the way of surveying devices, which maybe rolled into the smart phones that govt. intends to distribute to farmers, so sense of land ownership remains