Q And why, why, how did we forgot it?
A I'll give you a simple example. In our area where we operate, Tiptur, ok, When in the year, like mad people, we got out of Wipro and we told, we will change the world. First thing we did was, we did a baseline survey of Tiptur belt, coconut, what's happening. It's a big copra belt, sweet copra belt in India. And when we surveyed, what the revelation is very damning. Coconut tree was producing 55 nuts per tree per annum. That was the survey data. Government data exactly matches with that. Then, we were extremely curious what it was a hundred years back. A hundred years back, 19 not three and 19 not five, there are two British day surveys pegged the coconut yield in that area at 185 nuts per tree per annum. So what happened in hundred years? So to your question, this is what happened. We economized everything. Other quadrant I was mentioning, we sold the coconut, we sold the coir pit, we sold the leaf fronds, we sold everything and economized. But diversity of managing soil, we forgot. We didn't take care of the soil. In hundred years of farming, a coconut tree which was yielding 185 nuts per tree per annum, at an average, we have bought it down to 55 nuts. That is our contribution of farming. Ecological dimension is forgotten. Other aspect in the farming, the fourth aspect is, Diversification of, ok, um, your income streams. You should have dairy. You should have poultry. You sh…
AI assessment note: “We economized everything... But diversity of managing soil, we forgot.”