Not more free food again...

Thanks for including the beautiful article by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs (B&E, September 9 to September 22: Ed). The simple and practical suggestions offered by him are worth adopting in our country. I am of the opinion that rather than recommending measures like subsidies cut, it would be prudent to suggest to the Indian government to ensure provision of four much needed inputs to the Indian farmer – soil nutrient replenishment through organic and chemical fertilisers, irrigation or other water management techniques, improved seed varieties and sound agricultural advice to our rural farmers across India. This long term solution is likely to succeed in increasing food production, slowing rural population growth (consequently inflow to cities) and mitigate long term global climate change. As illustrated by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, such increased food production could be easily turned into sustained national economic growth as reasoned by the author in his article. THE CORE DILEMMA could indeed be resolved!

Col. D. R. Solanki



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