The Challenges of Food Insecurity
Climate change, Global warming, Biodiversity, Global water crisis, Collaboration, Coordination, Watershed management.
- “Food insecurity and hunger are serious threats to children’s health, growth and development. The idea of not being able to put plentiful nutritious food on the table for any child is a horrifying thought.” – Samantha Harris
It is a shocking news alerted by World Bank in its weekly update and cautioned us to curb the scarcity of food and handle it efficiently the low volume of agriculture output by applying technology through various means help and improves the production in multi aspects. It is a collective effort to face the challenge, we have to concentrate on various aspects and take the measures to reduce the problem by following the experts opinion helps to some extent to come out of this problem. Some of the points mentioned here to take care and handle the situation in a better manner.
- Drip irrigation eliminates the wastage of water and improves crop production.
- High yield seeds should be available in market with reasonable cost makes easy to farmer to collect and increase the output.
- Modern agricultural equipment helps the farmer to increase the production in large scale with less effort and saves time.
- Information should reach the farmer about latest changes taking place in changing environment with agriculture sector through electronic media, universities, departments, institutions conducting programs like farmers day, seminars, symposiums and meetings with farmers in large scale at their place is stressed here on this occasion.
- Elimination of wastage keeps us in safe zone. We should keep an eye and avoid the leakages right from production, procurement, shifting from one place to the other, storage, consumption and so on. Everything counts and makes major change if we follow and implement it effectively.
- Minimum support helps the farmer by eliminating middle men through minimizing the levels between farmer and consumer gives direct access in procurement between the user and producer reduces the burden on all of us.
- People migrating from rural to urban is increased when compared to earlier.
- Welfare is required and it is must to take care of the needy by respective governments in case of education and health. At the same time free schemes are most dangerous in long run and spoil us in many angles to avoid growth at global level. It makes us lazy and worthless. It is going to be burden on the part of exchequer in long run. It is only a caution and necessary measures should be taken up by all of us to avoid this problem. We are collectively responsible for this cause. Let us not to blame one sector or one group. It is a collective effort. Blame game will not fetch the fruitful results. Let us respect and respond as responsible citizens. Be proud of yourself. Behave like self sustained and self developed person. Work is Worship. Duty is Divine. Love yourself and your work. If we love our work it loves us in the form of success. Try to be a giver instead of taker. Giving has its own value. It gives pleasure and satisfaction. Let us pray God to contribute our level best in given time with available resources. Plant a tree to save the nature. If we protect nature it protects us like our mother.
