TRANSPLANTING IN RED GRAM

Red gram (Pigeonpea) is sometimes grown as a sole crop, but more typically, it is grown in relatively complex systems where it is intercropped, or mixed with other crops. Pigeonpea is generally broadcasted, but line sowing is superior over broadcasting. Broadcasting results in uneven plant population which ultimately results in low yield. In general transplanting of pigeonpea seedlings is one of the alternate agronomic practices to overcome late sowing and related lower yields of pigeonpea. This technique involves rising of seedlings in polythene bags in the nursery for one month and transplanting the seedlings with the onset of monsoon after the soil profile is uniformly wet.

This method uses lesser seed, chemical inputs and promotes soil biotic activities in and around plant roots, enhanced through liberal applications of compost and harrowing that aerates the soil. Further Transplanting at wider spacing allows enough sunlight to reach the leaves of each pigeonpea plant thus reducing competition for water, space and nutrients resulting in the spread of roots and healthy growth of plants. These changed practices with lower inputs counter-intuitively lead to improved productivity and yield. Filed experiments conducted to evaluate the performance of transplanted pigeonpea by few agricultural universities and NGOs elsewhere in the country have shown the encouraging results. But this method need to be tested in the local conditions and it need to gain momentum at large.

RATIONALE TO INCREASE RED GRAM PRODUCTION: Red gram is an important pulse crop in India, it is also known as Pigeonpea or Arhar or Tur. This crop is widely grown in India and India is the largest producer and consumer of Red gram in the world. But the  opening  up  of  economy  to  the  global  market  forces  has  changed  the framework  of  decision-making  for  farmers  in Andhra  Pradesh  as  elsewhere  in  the country,  particularly  in  regard  to  choice  of  crops.   Barring few, majority of the Indian farmers have been switching from food crops to cash crops especially cotton. Expectations  of  more  export opportunities  and  higher world  prices  for many  agricultural  commodities  led many farmers  to move  from  “secure”  subsistence  food  crops  to  high  risk/high  cost  cash crops for  the market. As  a result,  area  under  food  crops  has been in decline in  favour  of  cotton and other cash crops. 

This shift from food crops to cash crops resulted in to the significant decline in area under food grains especially pulses in favour of export crops. This shift resulted in the heavy burden on the farming community due to high input costs, environment pollution, deterioration in the soil organic carbon stocks and fertility of soil due to the extensive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides on cash crops and monoculture. The most important impact is decreased production of pulses.  Although the national situation on cereals remain encouraging; Pulses, Sugar and Edible Oils remain an area of concern.

The need of the hour is to bridge the gap between the demand and supply and address the need to encourage farmers to go in for more pulses production. To achieve this, consistent efforts should be made to improve local production by and revitalizing the soil health, providing incentives and seed subsidies to the farmers. As India is the largest consumer of red gram and it is a protein rich staple food. It contains about 22 percent protein and supplies a major share of protein requirement of vegetarian population of the country. Decreased area under red gram poses a significant threat to the food security. Hence India needs to invest on accelerating red gram production through the better seed supply management, capacity building of farmers on factors of production and promotion of improved package of practices, including technological interventions, and a region-specific approach are needed to alleviate the problem of short supply of pulses and chronic malnutrition among the people.

IT IS THE ACT OF MIRACLES THAT IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL EVILS AROUND BABA..

When every miracles is questionable to the logical mind and no object/thing can be created without using other material(s). Creating objects especially finished gold ornaments from the emptiness is the root cause of all evils and prevailed controversy around Baba. I don’t know whether God is there or not, even if he/she is there, he/she has provided us only raw materials and left us like that. And it is we; only human beings, with thousands of years of observation and efforts arrived to this stage and able to understand materials and quantities to be used and methods to be followed to  make any object/thing.

Unlike the nature, which provides only raw materials, Baba pretends to be raised above the nature and had been engaged in creating finished goods from the emptiness, which caused all the problems and created a breeding ground of highly self driven individuals around him in the name of coterie comprising few powerful individuals who have taken the responsibility of secretly making those things (gold chains, watches, rings what and not) and make available to him, that is why/how they become so strong and could even manage the concerned for their selfish end. Here we should also thank those anonymous jewelers who are always in the dark and never cared for any public endorsement by any one.  

When Baba can create that much gold he would have created more gold on his own instead of accepting donations for the cause and establishing institutions, constitutional settings and etc. If it is his capacity, with one wish and with more power, he would have created hospitals, colleges and universities in the empty lands. Then these problems would not have taken place and these kinds of people would not have associated with him in the name of whatever it may be. But it is unlikely, it was all game plan to attract people.

He might have started his journey with pure soul and great intention, but once he started giving gifts, there he went in the grip of some people who were assigned to make those gifts/armaments secretly. That is where a strong coterie encircled him and continued their drama pushing Baba ahead. Every day is a magic show with rich and power full occupying front seats and enjoying personalized miracles and costly gifts. Poor are always kept away from Baba, who always bestowed with general Darshans – “sight" in the sense of an instance of seeing or beholding - and Ash, while rich and mighty have always enjoyed specialized Darshans and gifts made from mostly gold. I don’t know any poor and ordinary devotee have received any such costly gifts from Baba, but all the rich and mighty devotees we name any quote the gold gifts received from Baba. Poor might have received one or the other service but why not they were given Gold gifts? Since mighty can influence more and bring more devotees, they might have given special treatment in the Ashram. It seems the whole saga is been ran and marketed by DEVOTION MERCHANTS in the name of aides to Baba.

If God is there, where he/she has created all individuals with equal bones and flush, it is man who made all these classifications. It may be common for ordinary people, why the same has been followed by extraordinary, Godly nature human being, who differentiated rich and poor and offered special Darshans to those rich and mighty. According to Baba when all of his devotees are “Embodiments of Love”, why only rich, mighty and power full embodiments of love have received special treatment, personalized miracle and special gifts? If an ordinary person says, someone is great, the impact will be much lesser, but if a rich/powerful/mighty says someone is great then the impact will be much more. That is why Rich and Powerful are given much importance there. It is all commercial tricks played for the benefit of few.   

Some may argue that, whatever he may be, he has attracted millions across the globe.  For that matter movie stars, sports stars, artists, social workers and sometimes even terrorists have also received attention worldwide. Receiving attention is never be the concern. Gaining attention is considered, Father Ferrer, a Spanish native who served natives of the Anantapur district for more than four decades and has done much more service than anyone else in the district has also attracted many and revered by lakhs of people. His final journey was also witnessed by Lakhs people and a government holiday is also declared on the day of laying him to rest. But how many knew him and heard about him? Unfortunately he is more revered in his native country than in India. It is all power play by few for their and few others benefit.

This mother earth has given birth to many all time greats like Buddha to Bhagat Singh, who lived simple life but contributed significantly for the benefit of large. When one’s soul and acts are pure, people will always follow them, then one need not to resort in creating miracles. Their number may be few, but their acts, souls and deeds are pure, that is why they never resorted on miracles and created the garbage around them in the name of aides. Who are the main culprits in this case, who had to secretly made those things (gold chains, watches, rings what not) and make available to him, that is how/why they become so strong and could even manage the concerned for their selfish end...

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BEHIND EVERY CORRUPTED MAN THERE IS A CORRUPTED WOMAN

As there is a woman behind every successful man, there is a corrupted woman behind every corrupted man.  But that woman does not necessarily to be wife, she may be mother or daughter or some other female whom that man likes. Here I am not referring those unfortunate women whose son/husband/father is a rogue and gender insensitive, I am referring women from those families, whose son/husband/father is good at family and gender sensitive, knows art of living, art of looting the country and fellow human beings while knowing the art of sharing the looted sum with family members.

If accepting bribe only is considered as corruption, then we need not discuss much, a Lokpall Bill or something is else may be sufficient enough to curb the corruption, but it is the entire society in nature is corrupted by minds and souls. When Auto driver to Vegetable vendor to Shop keeper to Petrol bunk owner to Theatre owner to Doctor to Lawyer to Contractor to Journalist and whom not, everyone involved corruption in one or the other manner or involved in cheating fellow individual and nation in one or the other way, we should not consider taking bribe only as corruption and should not target only bureaucrats, political people and industrial houses, whose number is relatively very less. I feel using office phone for personal purpose or stealing things (Stationary, Software, Documents and etc) from office must also be considered as unethical practice, which most of the individuals do. In that sense, from Auxiliary Nurse to Anganwadi Teacher to Office sub staff to IAS Officer to Ward member to Member of Legislative Assembly/Parliament to State/Central Minister to Common public, everyone are corrupted.

It is men who are corrupted in general, because it is men who are more into employment or involved in earning means of living for their families. Though women are also have been into employment for long, their number is relatively less and it is more men who are into helm of affairs, whether it is politics or something else. But in most of the cases, a women will be there behind every corrupted, however she relates to him.

Some may argue that, if so, women should be behind every crime and made responsible for the same, but women supports only corruption, but not any crime, because with corruption they get money, jeweler, houses rather bungalows, cars and moreover respect and admiration from the corrupted society, friends, neighbors and relatives. If a person a kills someone, except a dead body of the killed, what his wife gets? so they don't encourage any other crime but corruption.

It is mother, because if she says no or infuses character, majority of the times one will not involve in corruption. I feel behind every Chatrapathi Shivaji there is a Rajmata Jijabai, his mother, who infused character and valor in him. It does not mean that behind every Kasab there may be one mother like him, because killing someone doesn’t fetch anything but imprisonment. But corruption fetches money, respect from the society, huge dowry and what not?

It is wife, because she occupies majority of the man’s productive life time. If she says no or refuses or ignores the corrupted sum, majority of the men or at least 50 to 70% men stops corruption or at least think twice before taking bribe or doing something unethical. But if a man’s seat is potential for corruption and if that person is not corrupted, then he will be thrown out of the house by his wife only. Some argue that, in the middle class families, most of the times women are occupied by house hold chores and don’t have time to look into the her husband’s means of income and the alike. It may not be true, if so, why T.V. serials have become so popular?

It is daughter or younger one, who can differentiate between good and bad, if she says no or persuades her father not to be corrupted, majority of the men stops corruption, but in general daughters don’t, because they dream of buying another big corrupted man to marry with huge sum as dowry amassed by her father.

There may be some women in any relation with corrupted, who are good at heart and tries to convey that they don’t want corrupted sum. But interestingly corrupted gets relatively beautiful girl as wife as they are most sought for by beautiful bride’s parents. Because beauty has its value, which comes at price, though that price might paid through the sum made by corruption. And in marriage alliances it is wealth that has more weight-age than anything else especially character. If you are very good at heart, have social concern, character, values and civic conscious, then the best place for you will be a Math or Ashram….     

But it is also the society, friends, relatives and well wishers (??), who always encourages one to be corrupted, admires his wealth amassed through corruption, respects him while making mockery of righteous people.