08/06/2025
As an agriculture consultant, it’s difficult to limit yourself to just one area like permaculture, agroforestry, or market linkages, because the real issues farmers face is often not what they believe them to be. What they describe is usually a symptom, not the root cause. To truly help, we need to look at the entire system—soil, water, inputs, behavior, markets, and climate—as a whole.
- A farmer may say, “These fertilizers are not working” but the real issue might be poor soil biology due to years of chemical overuse.
- Or they say, “My profits are shrinking,” when the underlying problem is market mismatch, post-harvest losses, or a lack of diversification and also high input costs
- Sometimes, what looks like a pest issue may be a deeper agroecological imbalance or poor crop planning.
Not just this farmers approach for waterlogging, energy efficiency etc as well.
They are farmers they don’t think of it as separate entities.
This exactly why the government schemes fail trying to implement one type of solution to all. Everyone grows same and market collapses. Diversity boom..!!!
It’s important to have a 360-degree view rather they try to replace traditional ways with software and technology and call it innovation
Most so-called “innovations” are often surface-level solutions—apps, dashboards, sensors, platforms—without addressing the deeper, systemic issues that farmers face on the ground. I have seen professional work in the same way, Pest problem? this pesticide. No water? we will develop drought resistant crops in lab.
Tech and science are only support system not the final solutions
Real Innovation = Ground + Tech + People
