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 ?
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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