Re: MNCs Sucking up India's IQ - Tom Friedman

I don't think it is practically feasible to have a corporate farm because of
a very simple reason. People like to take decisions for themselves. they
don't like if someone else makes decisions for them. Everyone wants to
decide which crop they want to grow in their land. Some might want paddy and
some sugarcane etc. It is very difficult to gain their trust.

>From: "Chandu Sambasiva Rao" <srchandu@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: AndhraOne@googlegroups.com
>To: "AndhraOne" <AndhraOne@googlegroups.com>
>Subject: Re: MNCs Sucking up India's IQ - Tom Friedman
>Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:30:18 -0000
>
>
>I like the idea of "Chambers of Farming". Some thing got into my mind
>and I can't get over it. (Should I try?) Instead of Govt taking the
>lead and forming a politically charged bodies to start with, can we
>encourage "Public Private Partnerships" here too? Can every chamber be
>a govt. partner but independent for all other reasons? Can they be part
>of a self governing echo systems?
>
>Another observation that I am interested in is, having smaller chunks
>of land may not be very suitable to apply and take advantage of latest
>farm technologies, . But in India, like in any other country, land
>ownership is more emotional than any other type of property. How we get
>our farmers to take advantage of modern tools and techniques that are
>so easily available to corporate farms?
>
>Can we encourage "Corporate Farms - Indian Style" at village level,
>where participating Farmers are stakeholders and no one else. Their
>stake is determined by the land they contribute to the "larger-farm"?
>
>Do you think this will fly? What happens to individual control and
>pride? What else can plague such a seemingly benign strategy? What safe
>guards are needed?
>
>Regards,
>Chandu
>