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is deficit, the quantum of biomass and food grain to be provided from the regional pool would be estimated to overcome the
limitation of the deficit of endowment. Additional employment assistance and concessional credit need to be provided above
the proposed norms. For the cluster and for the sub-region the micro planning process needs to be taken up. The outcome
of the macro planning would be determined to extend the sub region where aggregate production of food grain and biomass
would be sufficient to build the required size of the food grain and biomass pools. There is also another way of building
pools that is by integrated use of local and existing water through intra-watershed or intra-basin pooling. Incentive for such
pooling can be created through price incentives and additional concessional credit. Studies show that by using the price
incentive and credit concession the surplus in any sub basin can be substantially enlarged through shift to biomass and
water efficient cereal production in lieu of cash crops. This way the inter-basin water transport and inconvenience can be
avoided.
Due to pre-occupation with efficiency in commodity production, rural populations have been neglected and
exploited. The issue of a socially just and meaningful rural infrastructural support for the development of the quality of
human life in the rural sector continues to go unaddressed. These problem areas of today’s agriculture must be addressed;
in fact, the time is long overdue. Furthermore, the fundamental assumptions behind the twentieth century agriculture need to
be questioned. Given the many centuries of exhaustive agricultural history, the specific goal ought to be that of achieving a
global regenerative and nationally self-reliant food system.
The word regenerative refers to the idea that in the twenty-first century, agriculture, for the first time in agricultural
history except for traditional paddy rice production found in the tropical world, will regenerate its resource base of soil, water,
and biodiversity.
Agriculture, of all the sciences, technologies and industries, stands alone in having this unique potential. The world
‘sustainable’, which is frequently used in references to new agricultural futures, too often is interpreted to mean that, given
necessary resources, even a poor system can be sustained for a long time, provided only that a community has the ability to
obtain the needed resources. To move beyond this ambiguity, the word regenerative is used. The idea of regenerativeness
goes beyond conceptualizations of conservation, for this latter word usually just conjures up the idea of being careful about
using a resource in order to extend its time horizon as much as possible. Regeneration, in contrast, and particularly in the
case of agriculture, refers not only to the replacement of the essential resource, but, hopefully, to its enhancement.
Income Generation
The resource endowment for a gram sabha’s required endowment of land and water to create food security and
meeting energy needs is presented in the following table.
Income Generation
The resource endowment or a gram sabhas the required endowment of land and water to create food security and
meeting by energy needs is presented in the following table.
Land Use and Water Allocation for 100 h.h. gram sabha
to Create Food Security & Meet Bio Energy Needs
Land Use Area/ha Water Requirement Biomass output
ha/mm
terms per year
Wood Bamboo 20 5000 200(600)
Fiber
NTF 15 3000 60(120)
Organic
Vegetable 4 4000 200(fresh wt)
Food Grains 20 5000 80(Grain)
Pulses & fodder 10 3000 100
Sweet Sorghum 20 5000 400
Nitrogen 10 3000 100
Fixing Species 94 ha 2800 1120
dry matter coal equivalent