Agricultre Module

Introduction

Agriculture means the production of food through farming or forest. With 60 per cent of India's population directly engaged in agriculture, the real motivation to the economy can come only if the focus moves to agriculture. In agriculture two types conventional agriculture and sustainable agriculture.

The AME foundation is working for sustainable agriculture. Now it covered three districts they are Bijapur, Chittardurga and Bellary. Mr.Shashikant Introduced about AME foundation. Mr.Pattenshetty, Mr.Desai and Miss. Sangeeta patil were present. After that we gave our introduction.

Module Description

India is the 2^nd largest country in production of rice and wheat. It also produces vegetables, mangoes, bananas and onion.  It exports fresh fruit and vegetables to other countries. It used many technologies to develop farming in agriculture and in the year 1960 Green revolution in wheat and paddy, horticulture revolution in high value crop and white revolution in milk sectors are used for development in farming.

Rural situation is very difficult to survive, the rural people face many problems such as poverty, hung

er, illiteracy, poor health, sanitation and migrating from village to urban areas.  In order to produce more and improve the quality, they need costly inputs such as chemical fertilizers and artificial feeds, which make their farming activities uneconomic. All these reasons are making farmer to do suicide. Over 16,600 farmer suicides in 2007 .The broad trends of the past decade seem unshaken. Farmer suicides in the country since 1997 now total 182,936, but the real causes behind this devastation remain unaddressed. (Reference: News).

We had video session about farmer suicides. After that we discussed about climate change. This Change will impact on production of crops like rice, wheat and other crops. Many Indian farmers depend on rainfall. If doesn’t rain on time production of crop would not happen.We discussed about LEISA, it means Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture. How to get more yield by using low external input in agriculture and usage of natural resources.On 13th  we were on field visit to Inamirapura and Kurdikeri. I visited agriculture exhibition in Inamirapur with my friends. I observed diffe

rent types compost, it is made by using natural check resources. I also observed soil fertility testing, different types of seeds and Ajola. 

Later we visited Kurdikeri village, there we met Farmers Field School (FFS).It is informal education at school for farmers. There were 10 male and 10 female farmers present. They learn many things practically. First they do Agro Eco-System Analysis (AESA), farmers divide their group in to small groups then they go to analyze the plant. They select some plants and they search enemy insect, friend insect, climate, flowers, leaf and pets in AESA method.We followed the farmers we did analysis about Brinjal plant in ASEA method with farmers.  We caught enemy insect and pets in box. We counted leaf, flowers and Brinjals. We ca

me back and discussed with other and presented. There after other group has presented.

We played a game with farmers. It was enjoyable game, the moral story of this game is impossible will be possible by doing work with group, in a team we should cooperate, appreciate and encourage each other. Lastly our team won the game. On 14th March we had debate on Path to progress – Ru

ral economy v/s Industrial economy. I was in Industrial economy. It was one hour debate. Every one participated very well. I got much idea from debate.  Finally our team has convinced well to rural economy team.Finally we have discussed about Integrated farming System (IFS). The IFS has revolutionized

 Conventional Farming of Livestock.

Key Points: Conventional agriculture,  Sustainable agriculture,  Agriculture V/s Livestock,    Integrated farming System (IFS).