Agriculture Wing
Agriculture wing assists farmers in rural areas and provides solutions for their problems by discussing with responsible institutions, officials, researchers, and keeps updating rural areas with the new ways of farming, introducing new technologies in farming. The idea behind this wing's formation is to bring farmers and technology together to achieve profitable yields.
Agriculture in India has a long history dating back to ten thousand years. Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and logging accounted for 17.5% of the GDP in 2009, employed 52% of the total workforce and despite a steady decline of its share in the GDP, is still the largest economic sector and plays a significant role in the overall socio-economic development of India.
India is the largest producer in the world of milk, cashew nuts, coconuts, tea, ginger, turmeric, and black pepper. It also has the world's largest cattle population (281 million). It is the second-largest producer of wheat, rice, sugar, groundnut, and inland fish. It is the third-largest producer of tobacco. India accounts for 10% of the world fruit production with the first rank in the production of banana and sapota. India's population is growing faster than its ability to produce rice and wheat.
A young farmer producing huge profits with diverse crops and latest agricultural methods:
People who are engaged with politics cannot focus on other fields. They have to concentrate on politics only. But there is a young gun from Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh state, basically an Agriculture graduate, associated with politics, attracting everybody with his diverse agriculture crops. He is none other than Ruddireddy Radhakrishna, Loksatta party in-charge of Allagadda constitution.
Source: Eenadu Telugu newspaper dated Wednesday, 8th December 2010.
Radhakrishna born in Kandukooru. Although he comes from an agricultural family and graduated in Agriculture, he was not convinced with the system and never tried for any jobs. He has chosen his 30-acre agricultural land as his employment and farming different crops in that land. When all other farmers from this region are farming regular crops like Paddy, Cotton, Radhakrishna chose Kalingara (Melon), Rose, Yellow lentil (Toor dal)
[1] of type PRG 158. As he is graduated in Agriculture, he has become an inspiration to fellow farmers by showing successful experiments in crops. Mainly in Kalingara (Melon) crop, he invested only Rs.6,000. Melons weighing round about 20Kgs, the crop is worth Rs. 12,000 and it takes only 65 days for each crop term. "There will be a profit of almost one lakh rupees for one-acre land," says Radhakrishna, "I am farming Rose for the first time. Yellow lentil of type PRG 158 can sustain in the lands where there is a scarcity of water"
[2]. When many politicians are enjoying royal life, he is getting huge profits by having a strong belief in his agricultural land and his education in Agriculture.
I believe in land:
"Although I am an Agriculture graduate, I never had faith in this field to do a job. That is why I chose my favorite field of work, Agriculture farming. I want to change the agriculture methods in this area by experimenting with different crops. I was attracted towards Loksatta head Jayaprakash Narayana's wishes and taking part actively in Loksatta." - Ruddireddy Radhakrishna
