Sobhakrit Ugadi. Sri Rama Navami.
PV Satheesh (78), Co-founder, Deccan Development Society rests. Sadgati. Putting the Farmer, Woman, and Dalit First. The original millet man. Development Communications expert by training. Legend of ‘participation’ ‘agency’ of Dalit woman farmers.
Social Stock Exchange comes into being as a separate segment within the existing stock exchange and helps for-profit social enterprises to raise funds from the public.
This is the Yogakshemam 281. The third e-volume is getting ready. Maybe it is time we print the combined volume. This March also marks the beginning of new arrangements and ways of working. Elections are around the corner in the Telugu states and General Elections are just one year away. Karnataka’s opinion polls say it is Congress that is coming back there. Surat court sentences Rahul with a two-year jail term. He loses his MP seat. Meanwhile, they are appealing in High Court/Supreme Court.
Natural Farming is entering a new portfolio. Consolidation, Systems Change, Seeding, and Greening of the Models. Hyderabad Office, Hyderabad Team is coming up. Academy is gearing up for a 4-year 240 Credit Natural Farming course. A practice-centric course. A course that offers earning while learning. With a 1:5 Teacher-Student ratio. Mentors to get certified. Students train and get the cadre certified. They transform 50 farmers while studying itself.
A geometric progression of intense apprenticeship takes off for master trainers and mentors towards becoming an A-grade NF farmer with incomes of Rs.10,000-25,000 per month. In turn, each one takes 5 apprentices in Y1, and each apprentice takes 5 apprentices in Y2 and so on. 1+1*5+5*5+25*5 by Y4, and they would be nurtured for 3 more years. In a typical village, if we live a champion A-grade farmer, she would have enrolled 80% of farm families into A-grade NF practice in 4 years and would have fully transformed in 7 years. A model under greening now.
More farms, more villages, more states, and more countries across the globe are looking at us. We are gearing up to meet their expectations in one way or the other. Portfolios of ways forward. Triggers for the way forward. With the power of hope, trust and faith, promise, love and coexistence. With the agency of women, marginalized and youth working its way up to augment people’s health and the planet’s health. Inside each one of us, there is a woman, a superwoman with a nurturing instinct that needs to be rekindled. This needs to be mobilized and to acquire its agency – on the self, on the plate, on the household, on the farm, in the group, in the village, in the organizations, over the value chain, on the carbon-eco-credits, in the bazaar for fair share and with the governments for accessing their rights and entitlements.
We have champion farmers in this. We have SHGs and federations in this. We have enterprises and entrepreneurs. We have models. We have videos. Platforms. 99% of NF people are from the community. We also have ‘chemical’ farming graduates transformed into NF Practicing Natural Farming Fellows and Associates. We have migrated back new NF farmers and farmer entrepreneurs. We have Young professionals. We want Young executive leaders in the NF movement. First cohort would take off in the next 2 months. We want community, civil society, academic, media, public servants, political-spiritual leaders joining this. We want consumers. We want children asking for it. We want local value-chains and enterprises.
Can we transcend being ‘realistic’ into being ‘reasonable’? Can we be intoxicated with passion, vision, and possibilities? Can we get fired up? Can we have the freedom for all of these? Can we understand and appreciate the consequences and cost of inaction? Consequences and cost of keeping quiet? Are we not making choices every minute? Can we be more deliberate here? Can we be more conscious choice makers? Can we remember that we are only trustees of the present? Can we move on without getting stuck? Can we be, live, farm and consume in harmony with nature?
Yes, we can. We should. Being and flowing in nature, playing our roles in the present is the portfolio of ways forward. The flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of being in coexistence, co-living, co-action naturally in nature – sakritiyoga for 7L.
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