Kamala Harris may have an edge. Bill Gates is backing her, while Elon Musk is backing Trump. The election date is 5 November. Early voting, electronic voting etc., is already underway.
Maharashtra’s voting date is 20 November, with results on 23 November. In Jharkhand, the elections are in two phases – 13 November and 20 November, with results on 23 November. Battlelines are clearly drawn. Seat sharing has been finalized largely between the coalition partners on both sides. Candidates are being announced. Slight advantage: BJP plus. Manifestos or promises of good work have tokenisms. Elections do not seem to be fought on them. Both the camps are saying more or less the same things. Prashant Kishore’s Jan Suraj party is also fielding candidates in Bihar bypolls. For good governance.
For its work through AP Community-managed Natural Farming, APCNF, Rythu Saadhikaara Samstha, RySS receives Prof IV Subbarao Rythu Nestham Life Time Achievement. Sri M Venkaiah Naidu, former Vice President of India felicitated Vijay Sir, its Executive Vice-chairman. On 20 October at Swarna Bharathi Trust, Gannavaram, Andhra Pradesh. This takes RySS-APCNF to crossroads.
What roads, vehicles, and pilots got NF here now, over the last 8 years, may not take it to the next destination, over the next 7-8 years. Being in all villages of Andhra Pradesh, covering a three-quarters of its farmers; a half of its net sown arable land. Meeting all the nutrition of its 50% people. With forays into natural day-to-day food, fodder, fibre – milk, and meat included. With deepening into landscapes, beyond private lands, including commons. With hand holding troubleshooting farmer scientists in each village. With gross value doubling up. With scaling out, outside AP, with a million model farms. Within India and outside. With 100,000 modellers, volunteer champion farmers. It is time, we take planning at the farm level, at the village level. For customization, localization, and communitization. More than setting targets. It is time, we reduce layers of field implementation. It is time we increase field presence vis-à-vis district and state team strength. It is time we engage the mind spaces of our producers, consumers, value-adders, service providers, and enterprises with NF, and our cadre every day in various ways, media. Cultural, literature, electronic et al.
NF has come to the centre stage. It is accepted as a working alternative. People have nothing against the paradigm. It can only go up now. NF plus N-living is inching to be the default way, default portfolio of ways.
Our livelihoods, wellbeing, and development requires funds. True, they have to come from within. Others at best offer a small trigger helping hand. South countries like India are asserting and saying we do not need foreign funds. Not at the retail level. FCRA amounts are, therefore, dwindling. However, we seem to be getting remittances from diaspora. Some 600B USD a year. Yes, most of it goes to their families. Substantial amounts are for communities. These amounts are larger than all international aid combined. Can we look at local budgets, remittances, CSR funds, own contributions, credit linkages, local philanthropy funds, time investments et al as a portfolio in our plans and tracking? Else we may miss the overall developing story. Can we be more holistic? Can we be more inclusive, participatory?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, keep flowing in our ways, the express highways. In N? pathayoga for 7L.
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