Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Tuesday 12 March 2019

RE: ATTN : SHRI AMITABH KANT


Can we enable our Farmers to earn an additional income of Rs 5 LAKH*CRORE , per year , by 2022 ?


By finding umpteen processes to " add value " to the 500 MILLION tons of Agricultural Waste that our farms generate EACH YEAR , by turning it into useful products ?



To know what are such processes - and leading to what end-products - read :



A  Grass-Root  Revolution


Extract :

·         Niti Aayog has floated an “ expression of interest “ inviting research institutions to conduct a study on mass production of manure / fertilizer from agricultural biomass

·         Niti Aayog will suggest potential economic uses of this agricultural biomass besides identifying an economically viable technology to convert crop waste into compost

·         According to a government estimate, over 500 million tonnes ( MT ) of agricultural straw are produced every year in the country

·         Of this, nearly 362 million tonnes ( from rice-wheat-maize-millet ) , are burnt on the farms

·         Amount of surplus crop residue is estimated at 84-141 million tonnes

The good news is that NITI Aayog is in the process of formulating a policy road-map to promote alternative use of crop residue , which causes severe air pollution in Delhi, since farmers in Punjab – Haryana – Rajasthan , resort to burning the stubble


The farmers must get rid of the stubble and get the land ready for sowing the next crop within a very short period of 15 days . Hence burning the stubble , while still in the soil , seems like the only way out


But it need not be


NITI Aayog may want to look at the following other ways and incorporate in their road-map :



[ A ]   Using a tractor-rotavator , plough the stubble back into the land so that it serves as organic fertilizer

         Details at :

        #Smog in Brain ?   …………………………………..[  10  Nov  2017  ]

 


[ B ]   Using a tractor, remove the stubble and sell it to Power Plants as supplementary fuel

      Details at :

     Amrinder Singhji has no excuse !................[ 20 Nov 2017  ]

     Thank You , Captain Amrinder Singhji….       [  19  Oct  2018  ]

 


[ C ]   Sell the removed stubble to plants for making ethanol

     Details at :

     Not a straightforward Answer !    …………….. [  03  March  2017  ]

 


[ D ]   Sell the stubble to entrepreneurs who plan to use it to convert desert lands into fertile lands

      Details at :

     Garbage is Green Gold { 3G }    ……………….. [  10  Sept  2016  ]

 


[ E ]   Make water from Air by using stubble as fuel

     Details at :

    Making Water from Air ?       ………………………. [  26  Oct  2018  ]

 


[ F ]  Sell the removed stubble to small scale factories to convert into plates / trays etc

    Details at :


This startup can ‘bale’ Punjab out of paddy stubble crisis 

 

    


FOOTNOTE  :
Last year, NTPC offered to buy the stubble from farmers at Rs 5,500 per ton


Now use of straw to replace coal in power plants is possibly the least " value addition " process


Without doubt,other uses of straw described above add far more value to their respective end-products


Could the average " value addition " turn out to be as high as Rs 10,000 per ton of agricultural waste ?


At that price, what might be the " intrinsic value " of 500 million tons of our agricultural waste ?


A staggering
Rs  500,000 Crore  ( 5 lakh*crore )  !


More than enough to double the income of farmers by 2022  ?


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12  March  2019



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