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    Indian Agricultural Ministry should establish Central Agricultural Institutes throughout India to boost agricultural research and development. Currently, India faces shortages and imports of some agricultural commodities due to issues like low yields caused by climate change, lack of improved seeds and technologies, and insufficient research. Establishing more research institutes could help address crop shortages by developing high-yielding varieties and hybrids. This would support India's goal of self-sufficiency in food production and another Green Revolution through increased agricultural research capacity.

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    Indian Agricultural Ministry should establish Central Agricultural Institutes throughout India to boost agricultural research and development. Currently, India faces shortages and imports of some agricultural commodities due to issues like low yields caused by climate change, lack of improved seeds and technologies, and insufficient research. Establishing more research institutes could help address crop shortages by developing high-yielding varieties and hybrids. This would support India's goal of self-sufficiency in food production and another Green Revolution through increased agricultural research capacity.

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    Indian Agricultural Ministry should establish Central Agricultural Institutes throughout India to boost agricultural research and development. Currently, India faces shortages and imports of some agricultural commodities due to issues like low yields caused by climate change, lack of improved seeds and technologies, and insufficient research. Establishing more research institutes could help address crop shortages by developing high-yielding varieties and hybrids. This would support India's goal of self-sufficiency in food production and another Green Revolution through increased agricultural research capacity.

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    Indian Agricultural Ministry should start Central Agricultural Institutes throughout India Agriculture is back bone of Indian economy.

    India has huge diversity for agricultural production, improved technologies and hybrid varieties, still many people in India suffering from hungry/malnutrition because of non availability of sufficient quantity/quality of nutrition to peoples and currently India importing agricultural produce (particularly essential commodities) to meet the requirements of Indian people. For example, India a traditional rice exporter, will import the grain for the first time in 20 years to meet the projected shortfall (6 million tonnes of surplus by October 2009 and still there is a projection that there is some shortfall of kharif crop) of the crop hit by drought and floods. So to make it up, we have to make some imports, as our finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said in ministerial meeting to review food grain stocks and prices (THE ECONOMIC TIMES, 18/11/2009). With respect to pulses, as the price of tur dal reaching sky level/out of common man reach (premium quality tur Rs. 106 and regular grade 98 per kg). Tur is has B-class of protein and is main protein source for vegetarians. Now government is importing Canadian yellow pea/china tur/batari dal (common name in India, MP) as substitute for tur dal. China tur is used as cattle feed in Canada but the India is buying to feed peoples of our country with less price of Rs. 33-36 per kg, indicating that the Canadian yellow pea have almost the same value and a little more iron (TIMES OF INDIA, 12/12/2009). Is that we dont have any resource to develop high yielding varieties/hybrids to overcome all these problems to meet the requirement of our nation or is that we dont have sufficient agricultural scientist/crop specific scientist to overcome all these problems. Global warming is the major drawback to Indian agriculture to reduce the production and productivity of crop yield by uncertain rain fall, increase in mean temperature and many more. According to Dr.Sinha and Dr. Swaminathan, every 2oC increase in temperature, 0.75 tonnes decrease in paddy yield. According to IFAD (United Nations International Food for Agricultural Development) president Kuyn F Nawaze opined that agricultural production will decrease by 20 to 40 percent in Asia and Africa. In global level, by 2050, more than 25million people will suffer from hungry (PRAJAVANI, 5/12/2009). With this the fate, yield of many crop decreasing and the population is increasing day by day. The decrease in the production level of many crops could be of many reasons as mentioned earlier. There could be some more reason is lack of adequate professional scientist, crop specific scientists, the pathetic state of university run by state

    government or heavy work load duty at university level (teaching, research and extension), lack of proper extension activities to reach rural poor as well as the farmers and others. Indian government/ Ministry of agriculture undertaking many reforms to overcome these draw backs to get one more green revolution. Among them, funding to agricultural research, establishing new Agriculture, Horticulture and Veterinary universities and private agricultural colleges across the country. Again all these mainly focus on education but not on research. Ministry of Human Research and development entered in the field of education and research by starting 5 IESER, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Central Universities (in every state) in various places across the country. Likewise Ministry of Agriculture should enter in the field of research as holistic approach to develop high yielding varieties/hybrids at least in important crops. REMEDIES FOR IMPROVEMENT IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH (in the best of order),
    1. Ministry of agriculture should focus more to start of Central Agricultural Research

    Institutes throughout India at least one in each state in the similar line of establishment of the central universities in every state under the act of parliament.
    2. Open up already established Indian research institutes like IIHR, CRRI, CPRI etc, in to

    Indian research institute and research centers for post graduate, doctoral as well as postdoctoral.
    3. Government of India can start separate division for agricultural research/studies in

    already established Central Universities in every state.

    In the above scenario, ministry of agriculture should also enter in the field of agricultural research in India. Lost two remedies are easy to establish as it has already established infrastructure in its zonal level and state level. This will not have burden on already flouring ministry of agriculture intern it will reduce heavy burden on ministry of agriculture. These reforms in agriculture research may help in providing research oriented institutes in agriculture like Indian

    Institute of Science in the field of Science and Engineering and IITs in the country, because presently running agriculture universities in India are mainly teaching oriented. Overall, these steps of ministry of agriculture will encourages low socio-economic students, young scientists, allow real hardworking and talented young minds to enter in the field of agriculture research and maintain good quality research, and also answer to shortage of crop specific scientist or professional scientist in India. It may be one holistic approach to get one more green revolution in India particularly quality green revolution to achieve self sufficiency in food grains. Agriculture is the mother of all industries and maintainer of human life. So save agriculture to save our existence.

    Dr. N. Shashidhara, Ph D Post Doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. Utpal Nath, Department of Microbioloby and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore 560 012, India E-mail ID: [email protected] Mobile No. 09538915491

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