Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture

• 1. caring for those who feed the nation
  Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture
  Ramanjaneyulu, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
  

2. Context

• 16 out of 3 crisis 2effected districts

3. More than 500 suicides in last 12 months (90 in adilabad district alone during kharif season) 4. Serious indebtedness- 5. 82 % indebted 6. Avg: Rs. 23,965/family 7. Only 9.4 per cent of the farmers had access to information from extension workers in 2002 with 30% accessing information through private traders 8. Increasing Land Use Shift- 9. 5 lakh acres of biofuels, thousands of acres in command areas under subabul and aquaculture 10. 20 lakh ha shifted from cultivation in last ten years 11. 16 SEZs (of the 32 approaved) 12. Large scale migration 13. Landless Agriculture workers and small/marginal increasing