Friends On Same Wavelength meeting as on13 Th August 2012
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The meeting was started with the prayer. Serma Chairperson gave the the opening remarks wherein he mentioned the importance of weed management in India.
Sita Dinker gave introduction of the Guest Speaker Dr B Sivaji Rao, Phd in Weed from Cornell University,Ithaca, New York University, USA. He had also work as consultant on weeds with pesticide companies.
Dr Rao Guest Speaker briefed that India is agriculture based country wherein Agriculture is 16% of GDP which provides 52% of work force. The Indian population is the 17% of world population. The present productivity in agriculture is decline to 20% to 3o%.He further added that lot of farmer committed suicides because of adverse financial conditions. Between 1995 to 2010, 50000, 35000 and 32000 farmers committed suicides in Maharashtra Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh recepectivly. This also shows the declining agricultural yields in India. Between the 2006 to 2010 the declined was in the major crops including Rice,and Wheat. Even Indian Crop yield per Hector is 1/3 of the world.
Besides that he informed that crop losses due to weeds is about 45% and due to insects is about 30%. the remaining 25% loss is due to other reasons. Therefore the weed and grass management is very important task in the India.
The weeds and grass are generally eliminated by manually or mechanically or chemically However it is easy to remove mechanically in USA in view of large land ownership. The 40%, 10% and 30% of Herbicides are used in USA, India, and World recepectivly. However he concluded that more is supposed to be done in India in order to elimination of weeds.
The vote of Thanks was proposed at the end.
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