Inside ICAR: There is a fear … there is a fear … on the ridge of the farmers, a group of scientists on the farm; Hi! There is trouble
There is a fear … there is a fear …
In every field, every laboratory has a fear …
This is ‘development’ or ‘spread’,
Or the government really is the door of the farmers!
There is fear, there is fear, there is fear everywhere! The spirit of this song of the song Rang de Basanti of Aamir Khan is riding in the corridors of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). You can say that she is seriously turning. This is something like this. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan gave a mantra of ‘One Nation, a agriculture, a group’, that is, the gap between the farmer and the science is no longer working. The goal of this campaign is that ICAR scientists enter the fields for a month, communicating directly with farmers, transfer technology to land from the laboratory and give a strong, scientific approach to agriculture.
Under the Agriculture Minister’s ‘Mission Root-to-form’, ICAR scientists have to get straight to the farm for the next one month. That is, you have to work on the real ground with ‘Clay-Water’, coming out of the world with a white coat of the laboratory. Shivraj said the campaign would write a new chapter of ‘farmer-scientific unity’. But 6000 ICAR scientists have a lot of questions on their faces.
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Shivraj said the campaign would sow not only the paper scheme but also the seed. With this, agriculture receives greenery from scientific consciousness. But the big question is that this seed can withstand the atmosphere or fly in the air? Let us first tell us that this is the whole campaign that has blown up the winds on the faces of scientists.
Have you developed agricultural resolution campaign?
Shivraj Singh Chauhan has announced the campaign in more than 65,000 villages in 723 districts of the country from 29 May 29 to June 12 2025 by the ‘One Nation, One Agriculture and EK Team’. Its aim is to take ‘Lab to Land’ to take scientific research directly to the fields. According to the campaign, ICAR scientists, Krishi Vigion Kendra (KVK) and other professionals go to the village and communicate with the farmers. Its main objective is to promote advanced techniques such as soil health card, drone technology, dairy (DSR) and natural agriculture. Shivraj said the campaign would show results during the Kharif season, which increases the income of the farmers and improves agriculture.
Scientists fear in the fields, ICAR!
For the first time, ICAR scientists must leave their laboratory cold air and get into the dirt of the fields. For 30 days, 2,170 teams go to the field. Each group has 4-5 scientists. The group communicates directly with farmers more than 1.30 crore. This is the goal of ‘Lab to Land’, but this news is like a bomb explosion in a field between 113 ICAR and 6,000 scientists. So far, scientists who have won between microscope and data sheets now go directly to the soil, crop and atmosphere among farmers.
Foots toward the fields, questions are growing in mind
This campaign brought a storm in ICAR’s corridors. In the army of 6,000 scientists, excitement, curiosity and definitely a little fear. However, through this campaign, research in the laboratory can reach the farmers. This task has been limited to laboratories and magazines, which now reaches farmers and fields. Soil health cards and drone techniques increase the productivity of farmers.
By the way, how effective the technology developed in the laboratory is in rural conditions, which is a matter of thinking. Pesticides from the drone are useful, but the uncertainty of electricity and internet in villages becomes an obstacle in implementing it. These conditions can also be assessed.
The obstacle of conversation between scientists and farmers is also attracting lines of concern. There is a possibility of the trouble of the local language in understanding the language of the peasantry and their practical issues. Do farmers understand the soil pH or scientific parlance? Their focus area is to seek instant solutions on pests and climate issues in the crop.
Lack of time is also a big problem. For this reason scientists can have trouble forcing. The error expires in reaching 65,000 villages in 30 days and communicating with 1.30 crore farmers. It may be a very tight schedule, effective communication and time for technical performance.
In this way, the shortage of resources also becomes an obstacle in the campaign. The shortage of resources is a big problem in most organizations. Scientists may have drones and other devices but have enough battery, technical staff and logistics for performance in villages, which is a conscious factor. However, if the problems are set aside, research can definitely get a new direction from this campaign. This campaign triggers future research. Can find things. Further research can be done by close understanding of farmers’ problems.
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Do scientists absorb the mantra of ‘Lab to Land’?
That is, ‘Developed Krishi Sankalap Abhiyan’ is preparing a new farm for Indian agriculture, where scientists and farmers can sow greenery together. Shivraj Singh Chauhan’s brave step towards realizing the mantra of this bet ‘Lab to Land’. If this campaign is successful, innovations such as soil health cards, drone technology and natural agriculture will bring revolution in the fields. But the challenges are not even less, the lack of resources, the gap of a conversation between scientists and farmers, and the difficulty of land implementation becomes an obstacle in the germination of this seed.
ICAR scientists have panicking, but these panicks are like the ground that has planted new seeds. If the weather and the government supports the new crop, the new crop can be moved. If it is just a paper plan, the seed of this hope will look flying in the air. The farm is ready, scientists are ready, now the farmer and the weather test left. So, now, at present, only one thing in the corridors of the ICAR can be echoed, until tomorrow, people who grow plants in the labs in the petry dish now go to the fields, they grow plants! There is fear, but if this panic is positive, then the crop of fresh and new hope is stirred.
