Small farmer, prosperous farmer - Experiences of the Tata Trusts by Ganesh Neelam
Channel: IndiaWater Portal
Date: 2013-03-04

In this talk presented at the IWMI-TATA Annual Partners' meet at Anand, Gujarat in November 2012, Ganesh Neelam classifies the context in which small farmers become prosperous into distinct categories as production, market, consumer and environment. Currently all drives to increase the viability of  agriculture focus on production. The state too has focused on technology development and training. However, managerial capacity has not been developed at the same pace.The difficulty of selecting a catalyst who will be accepted by the farmers is also described. Neelam sums up by proposing that agricultural universities reinvent themselves as food  industries and interact with NGOs to provide support on all the externalities that influence farmers' prosperity.
For more about the meet, visit here: http://www.indiawaterportal.org/iwmi-tata-apm-2012