by his strenuous work and better agriculture he has one of the better offs in the village. 2.
We may define religion as “The
belief in or recongnition of a higher and uncoercible Power or Powers”. 3.
Forest services are in real sense
defence services in so far as they protect and defend the soil, the physical and climatic factors by conservation of forest and afforestation. 4.
There is a very great need of
understanding the proper place of religion. 5.
It is apparrant that in these days, a
democracy organisation is the strength. 6.
Let us work hard to have greater
comprehension of scientific facts for the greatest good of the country. 7.
Justice, equality and security will
be the guiding principles, regulating human conduct and relationship. 8.
The job of the scientist however is
not finished when the application has been worked out. There still exists a wide gap between the laboratories and the fields of the farmers. 9.
As vitamins are essential for the
maintenance and health of the body, I consider, movements of young farmers necessary and important for the growth and development of country. 10.
Nearly all the food required for
breeding our huge human population is directly derived from animals. 11.
It is no use scheming schemes,
dreaming dreams and throwing bubbles in the air. 12.
Art is long and life is short,
Remember this and drive your cart. 13.
Agriculture is the origin of all
cultures. 14.
My conviction still further
strengthened that co-operation is the very corner-stone on which we in India can confidently build the structure of our welfare state. 15.
The cow is not merely a useful
animal; she is a symbol of our economic stability. 16.
The message of the sword must
now give place to message of service. 17.
One Man’s bad action spoil the
whole structure and brings to dust all the unselfish work that had been put in. 18.
Let my University and Loka
Vidyapeeth strive to make useful, patriotic men and women out of ignorance, filth, poverty, and misery in the heavy darkness of rural India. 19.
I have never in my life consented to
making religious or caste distinctions the basis of political party. 20.
The technique of doing what needs
to be done is of importance. 21.
Loans have to be geared upto the
purpose more than to the persons who require credit. 22.
There is no religion on earth which
is more secular in character than Hinduism. 23.
Farming like any other trade has to
be learnt and needs a rigorous apprenticeship. 24.
The Indian farmer has long
suffered neglect and exploitation and therefore, he has resigned himself to fate. 25.
If there was any thing good in the
legacy to which we succeded, I should have thought, it was the scheme of Grow-More Food. 26.
Origion of religion may be found in
the conception of mana. 27.
The child is the father of the man,
and it is necessary that the co- operative way of living should be inculcated in habits of life of very young. 28.
Forestry is rightly known as the
mother of agriculture and its denizens, both human and unhuman require our sympathy and assistance. 29.
I want to eliminate the shame of
having any land which is totally barren and uncovered with any vegetation. 30.
It was necessary that big and small
farmers should have an organisation of their own at the national levels. 31.
Agricultural Production could be
increased only when the farmer is assured that he will receive fair reward for the investment and efforts, he has made to raise his crop. 32.
Planting of tree means life giving
rains in our own life time. 33.
Co-operation is national need, and in
the circumstances in which we live, it is the most vital and the most urgent need. 34.
I am convinced that the future of
this country lies in cultivating co- operative habits of life and in bringing to bear co-operative principles in every aspect of human endeavour. 35.
Price support policy is necessary
for achieving high production target. 36.
Planting a tree is so simple
procedure that no body needs look to the government for it. 37.
We are to much engaged of in
scratching one another’s back, with the result that lot of hummbug and hypocrisy flourishes freely on the Indian soil. 38.
Almost every farmer while
cultivating certain areas has certain areas under forest. 39.
We are not prepared to sacrifice
freedom and equality in the pursuit of wealth. 40.
Nature has made the young ones
full of spirit of adventure and receptive to new ideas. 41.
No readymade farmulae which
cannot be implemented, can go far in solving the manysided problems of agriculture. 42.
Bharat Krishak Samaj brings
together farmers enthusiasm, practical knowledge and government experience for better result of farming in the country. 43.
India is a vast country and gifted
with a variety of soils and climate. 44.
We must ride the waves and not go
under. 45.
Bamboo is the poorman’s timber.
46.
Wild life is not only a valuable but
enviable national asset whose conservation and development is our national duty. 47.
Wood enters in to our lives literally
from the cradle to cremation. 48.
Higher Education in Agriculture and
related field is essential to the economic progress and development of the country. 49.
The farmers forum will not in any
way be attached to or work for political ideologies or dogmas. 50.
I hope, we will try, remedy and
rectify the mistakes for which we our selves were responsible in the past. 51.
One rupee Paid to the money lender
is one rupee lost, where as the rupee paid to the co-operative society comes back to the member in the form of social assets in a number of ways. 52.
Goat plays an important part in the
economy of the poor man. 53.
Nordic myth conceives rainbow as a
bridge, a bridge between man and god, as indeed the co-operative way of life is. 54.
The cow gives us the most perfect
of all foods for human consumption. 55.
It is our foremost duty to device
ways and means of transforming agriculture in to a surplus and sustaining economy. 56.
For young men and women, farming
offers a fertile field of activity in which to devote a life time of constructive and satisfying work. 57.
The environmental conditions
should be taken in to consideration while deciding on a particular variety of the crop to be imported. 58.
Lesser production at home and
Greater production in the Field is the ideology of Bharat Krushak Samaj. 59.
In the achievement of our national
objective i.e. the socialistic pattern of society, improved marketing technique must play an increassingly important role. 60.
Proper Agricultural education
should be recognised as essential to the economic progress and development of India. 61.
Wild life management is a science
and an art which needs the services of men with a live interest in their work. 62.
It would be for us to ensure that
the standards of teaching as a result of increased facilities, do not go down, but are continuously improved upon. 63.
Milk is nature’s most perfect food
for human consumption. 64.
Forest Resources survey is
indispensable item for planning in any field in industrial activity. 65.
The village level worker is the most
important link between the villages and the Government. 66.
The agriculture colleges and schools
provide foundation for everything that ultimately contributes to the nation’s welfare. 67.
Rural education or rural study can
not be divorced either from agriculture from veternary. 68.
I firmly believe that the Hindu
religion, because of its unlimited catholicity is one of the noblest in the world. 69.
Life would become very dull and
colourless, if we did not have magnificient animals and birds to look at and to play with. 70.
The cultivation of flowers caters to
the asthetic need of man. 71.
Dignity of labour should be realised
and rules of scientific and healthy living adopted. 72.
The achievement of the ideals of
Co-operation leads to the vision of a new society, where in “one for all and all for one” is the common objective. 73.
It is through co-operation that the
people can be masters of their destiny. 74.
Planting of trees should not be
something that we do ceremoniously once a year for an odd week and forget all about it atleast for year. 75.
India is singularly fortunate in her
rich fauna and flora. 76.
I am both an amibitious as well as
very impatient man. I am ambitious however, not to go up ladder but that I and my farmer friends should serve Indian Agriculture, and through it the country, as best as we can. 77.
If the nation does develop its own
strength and attain advancement and prosperity, mere independence may not only be a very covetable object, but may be purely transition. 78.
It was Gandhiji who, for the first
time, in our country gave the rural community the importance, it deserved, it became the very centre of his constructive programme. 79.
I love the National Agricultural Co-
operative Marketing Federation more than my Ministry. I am prepared to be guided by your collective wisdom, and I shall act according to your advice. 80.
Let us by all means, put the
emphasis on research or extension, but let us not forget that agricultural education is the spring from which all streams of agricultural activities should flow. 81.
For attaining the goal speedily,
concerted efforts, untiring energy, zeal and spirit of selflessness are needed. 82.
I could now devote more time to
the work of the organization and speak out my mind more freely than I could as Minister. 83.
Unless the economy of the rural
people is properly stabilized, it would be difficult to create a proper equilibrium between the agricultural and industrial advancement of a country. 84.
The history of the advanced
countries itself teaches us the lesson that without the people’s initiative and efforts, we can never hope to attain a higher standard of living. 85.
An efficient system of marketing is
of critical importance to the country under all the conditions and at each stage of its development. 86.
The need of farmers organization is
all the greater because unlike almost every other profession, this is a very risky and uncertain kind of profession. 87.
The institues, colleges or schools,
or by whatever name they are called, which have only an agricultural bias tend to become centres of “White Collar Education” With agriculture no better than a hobby. 88.
Nature is a theatre for the
interrelation of activities. 89.
My circular letters will serve as a
kind of an outline of the history of the progress of Agriculutre in the country for the future. 90.
Born and bred in the land of Buddha
and Gandhi; I give my solemn pledge to protect my country’s fore sts and their voiceless denizens from want on and wasteful destruction. 91.
Co-operation will fail, if members
lack in character and are loyal to the organisation. 92.
The teacher in him and others
should overcome the horror of hard frame work and learn to teach the “Gospel” of the dirty hands. 93.
Vidarbha is an ancient land of
culture and rugged civilization. -Dr.Punjabrao Deshmukh