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    The cloudAgriculture & Rural EconomyAgricultural Value Chain
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    A dimension within Agriculture & Rural Economy

    Agricultural Value Chain

    This theme explores enhancing the agricultural value chain, focusing on farmer support, organic farming, and rural development.

    149 voices speak to this

    Dimensions within this theme

    🏗️Development & Public Services52 voices💰Agricultural Economic Growth38 voices🛣️Infrastructure & Safety24 voices🧑‍🌾Sustainable Rural Farming21 voices📚Education for Growth10 voices🤝Community Welfare & Governance4 voices

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    Community Voice Analysis
    An AI-powered summary of 100 submissions for this prompt.

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    Overall Community Sentiment

    The Voice Summary

    Nearby, citizens express significant concerns primarily centered around the struggles of farmers, including inadequate market access, unfair pricing, and a lack of support for adopting new, profitable agricultural methods 🌾. There are widespread complaints about deteriorating basic infrastructure like roads, drainage, and unreliable water supply 💧, along with demands for better public transport. A critical issue is the dire need for local economic opportunities, with citizens lamenting job scarcity, the absence of industries (especially garment and IT factories), and a lack of skill training, leading to youth migration. Social challenges such as pervasive illegal alcohol sales and unresponsiveness from local officials also feature prominently. To address these, citizens are actively seeking solutions: advocating for dedicated farmers' markets, organic farming initiatives, establishing small-scale industries and training centers, and improving the efficiency and reach of essential public services like hospitals and revenue offices. There's a strong desire for community-led development 💡 and improved governance to foster a thriving local economy and better quality of life.

    Dominant Themes

    Farmer Support & Market Access
    Infrastructure & Basic Amenities
    Local Economic Development & Job Creation
    Youth Engagement & Skill Training
    Government Responsiveness & Community Governance

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌾 💰 💡Implement comprehensive programs to support farmers, including establishing local sales outlets, ensuring fair prices, and promoting training in organic farming and value-added products.
    • 🛣 💧 🏥Prioritize investment in critical infrastructure, addressing dilapidated roads, improving drainage systems, ensuring reliable water supply, and establishing essential public services like local hospitals and revenue offices.
    • 🏢 👩 🏭Foster local economic growth by attracting small-scale industries and IT companies, providing vocational training (e.g., tailoring, computer centers), and supporting home-based businesses to create diverse job opportunities and reduce rural-urban migration.

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    🧑‍🌾 🚫 💰

    Yes, yes, if I have to be a farmer, tell them I won't give permission. First, fix a proper market and price for the farmers and motivate them about the crops, then it will be beneficial for the farmers for the next developments regarding rates.

    — Bhargvi

    🧑‍🌾 📚 🏛️

    We, who are farmers, need to ask for our children to be farmers and educate them as well. For that, we need to raise awareness. For awareness to be created, our representatives or officials need to respond to it.

    — Bhargvi

    🌱 🏪 💰

    A request to the honorable MLA to help farmers in the Nelakote constituency by building a sales outlet nearby for them to sell their grown crops and providing a support price.

    — Uma mahadevappa · Damadahalli, Mandya, Karnataka

    👨‍🌾 💪 🛠️

    Basani Basani sir, on behalf of farmers, if 'giving a girl' means 'not giving,' then farmers should have all the necessary facilities, they own land, they are working hard, they are involved in all aspects, and they are getting educated.

    — Manjunatha G B

    🍅 💸 🏗️

    In the PACS workshop related to circular economy, Sunkathonnur PACS president talked about the interest in exploring the value chain of tomatoes since farmers have lost a lot of money on tomatoes this season. Khova is something that can be explored through SHGs. To build these out, there is a need for cold storage, Godown and also Solarisations. However the PACS also needs lands where these can be carried out.

    — Srinidhi Gurunath · Mysuru, Mysuru District, Karnataka

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    ♻️ 🤝 💸

    In the PACS workshop related to circular economy , A farmer leader from Jhakannalli talked about building out a godown for farmers to enable to connect them to Nagamangala for better trading opportunities. A PACS also talked about building a pertrol bunk. Someone also talked about how some measures are looked at from the lens of increasing the profits of the PACS and not necessarily circular economy

    — Srinidhi Gurunath

    🌾 🧑‍🎓 💔

    I am requesting you to speak in the legislative assembly regarding the necessity for farmers' children to first understand agriculture, and also concerning the issue where the daughters of farmer friends are not getting married.

    — Ranjan

    🧑‍🌾 💡 💼

    In agriculture, what we mean is that new methods should be introduced, and young people in the village should get this work. What work is available for farmers' children, mostly?

    — Likith Dip · Machahalli, Mandya, Karnataka

    👨‍🌾 🤝 💰

    What we need is a system to sell the farmers' produce in a planned manner. There should be no middlemen. It should be profitable for them, agriculture profitable

    — Smriti Tiwari · Pandavapura, Mandya, Karnataka

    🧑‍🤝‍🧑 📉 🌱

    Hi, we are reporting a lack of jobs and training here in our constituency. We would like agriculture, organic farming, training in our constituency.

    — Srinivas Mangipudi · Arpora, Baga, North Goa

    🧒 🚜 💡

    That's why children must do farming now. If they do, then my opinion is that farming should be done, farming should not be neglected. That is, new people should work, new methods should be used.

    — Likith Dip

    🌱 📜 🛍️

    Bindalli PACS CEO in In the PACS workshop related to circular economy, expressed the need to have a BRC to change to organic, since the Pandavapura taluk has been declared organic. There is a need to setup a purchasing kendra as well.

    — Srinidhi Gurunath · Mysuru, Mysuru District, Karnataka

    🤝 🌱 📈

    This message is by DP. I would like to organize the farmers and meet them every week to give them information and educate them with the farming methods and how they can make more money by making byproducts.

    — Shram

    👨‍🌾 💸 🍚

    We farmers have to maintain the expenses, we have to try to earn income accordingly, we have to use all these, I am looking at how much is needed here, the farmers will not do all that, the government gives two rice.

    — Bhargvi · Pandavapura, Mandya, Karnataka

    🍚 💰 📈

    In the PACS workshop related to circular economy , the Kyathanahalli PACS talked about how there is a market of rice amounting to 150MT that can bring them a profit of 650 per quintal therefore increasing the incomes of the shareholder farmers.

    — Srinidhi Gurunath · Mysuru, Mysuru District, Karnataka

    🧑‍🌾 🏗️ 🙏

    In the Thursday market of Palyapura, a permanent shed should be built for the farmers to facilitate their sales. This is a sincere request.

    — Manjunatha G B

    🧑‍🌾 📉 ❓

    Farmers are not getting the right price and not getting the right information also about the market. There should be clear ways to find these out otherwise very difficult.

    — Shram

    🧑‍🌾 🌱 🤝

    We have come from Balli to Pandavapura, sir. Tell me, sir, what should be done for the farmers' families regarding organic farming, and what will you do to help them grow vegetables and provide fertilizers?

    — Bhargvi · Pandavapura, Mandya, Karnataka

    💰 ♻️ 🏡

    In the PACS workshop related to circular economy, NABARD spoke about how grant and returnable grant can be used by PACS - these grants are for Rural Santhe/Haat upgradation, Farm innovations, SHG grans and EDP grants.

    — Srinidhi Gurunath · Mysuru, Mysuru District, Karnataka

    🧑‍🌾 🤝 🌱

    Akshaykalpa is also providing paid residential fellowships for young farmers in Tiptur to learn organic farming

    — Srinidhi Gurunath · Pandavapura, Mandya, Karnataka

    🌱 🐄 🤲

    We should give more priority to organic farming. We should stop using chemical fertilizers and give more importance to organic farming and save our native cows.

    — Smriti Tiwari · Pandavapura, Mandya, Karnataka

    🌾 🎨 ✨

    Recognize farming as a craft

    — Bhargvi

    👨‍🌾 💻 💔

    We are children of farmers. No matter how much we earn, even if it's crores, people look for IT/BT jobs, outside jobs, good clothes, and good cars. That's why they hesitate to give their daughters to farmers. This issue is not yet resolved.

    — Siddappa

    👨‍🌾 🔇 🙏

    Sir, in our Melukote assembly constituency, in the Gram Panchayat ward and Taluk Panchayat ward, officials are not responding properly to farmers. Please rectify it properly.

    — Pramodh k s

    🌾 📉 📊

    Many people are reporting problems with farming. We are trying to scale them, analyze all the feedback and determine the overall sentiment.

    — beardcoded · Pandavapura, Mandya, Karnataka

    🧑‍🌾 📚 ✨

    No, have you arrived, sir? We saw someone here in Pandavapura and they sent us to Pandavapura. Ha. Farmer. First of all, the government should first give us education, quality education, meaning, everyone should be given quality education. Farmer, farmer, farmer.

    — Bhargvi

    🏘️ 🚧 🙏

    There is an opportunity for a holiday. Tell me. Anthahalli Basavaraju. The problem in our village is that in this Kalvani street, there are three street lines, and the old line is causing a lot of trouble. Please get that done for us. Because it's old, we are facing a lot of problems with water supply. Please get that done. Also, there is no way for farmers to come after 4 or 5 o'clock for the bus. We need a separate road from Pandupura to Anthahalli. School children need a separate bus, and farmers also need a separate bus.

    — Siddu ಅಂತನಹಳ್ಳಿ · Giriyarahalli, Mandya, Karnataka

    🐄 🔍 🧑‍🎓

    Akshaykalpa Organic is looking for interns for their 150 dairy farms and Bulk Milk Coolers in Mandya district

    — Srinidhi Gurunath · Pandavapura, Mandya, Karnataka

    🌾 🏙️ ❓

    Ha hmm, what do you think? If everyone else goes to enjoy themselves, what should happen to the farmers' children? Have the cities become such without farmers? They have grown up here until now, earning lakhs of salaries, and today they say they don't want farmers' children. Okay, you didn't write it, write it down.

    — Uma mahadevappa

    🧑‍🌾 💡 📈

    Dear Legislators, Please guide our villagers on what kind of businesses they can establish with the resources they have and how to market them.

    — Vinay E S · Pandavapura, Mandya, Karnataka

    🏞️ 🛠️ 💧

    Please desilt the LBL canal a bit. That's why we are asking, as a lot of farmers are facing problems. If the LBL canal is desilted, we won't have water problems. Please fix it and select one more.

    — Likith Dip · Haravu, Mandya, Karnataka

    👶 ⛽ 👀

    Oil is not being provided to farmers' children; a little attention should be paid to that.

    — Manjunatha G B · Aralakuppe, Mandya, Karnataka

    🧑‍🌾 🛒 🗓️

    To the farmers of Pandavapura Thursday market

    — Manjunatha G B · Pandavapura, Mandya, Karnataka

    🧑‍🤝‍🧑 🏭 🏡

    A request to establish small industrial areas in various places within the Melkote assembly constituency for the people, to prevent young men and women from migrating to Bangalore.

    — Siddappa

    🍚 🚫 👩‍🌾

    If there are only men in the field, where will the food come from? There won't even be rice available later. Therefore, women also need to work patiently here.

    — Darshan S.K · Haravu, Mandya, Karnataka

    ♻️ 💰 🔄

    In the PACS workshop related to circular economy, the director of Chikkade PACS expressed an intrest to explore the biochar as a value chain and also buyback mechanisms for gunny sacks

    — Srinidhi Gurunath · Mysuru, Mysuru District, Karnataka

    🌿 🚫 👮

    Adulteration is rampant in natural farming everywhere. The demand for original natural products is decreasing significantly. I request you to first control adulterated natural products.

    — Smriti Tiwari · Pandavapura, Mandya, Karnataka

    🌾 💰 🌱

    Tell me, sir, what kind of help? What help did we not get? What kind of help is needed? Now, if we want to grow crops, if we want to grow vegetables, we need money. We need fertilizer. Then the entire land needs to be leveled.

    — Bhargvi

    🧑‍🎓 🏃‍♀️ 🏠

    Many educated young men and women from our town go to various capital cities. It is our request that we establish as many skilled and small-scale industries as possible here.

    — Likith Dip · Haravu, Mandya, Karnataka

    🏘️ 🚧 🙏

    For village development, the village's drainage system needs to be cleared repeatedly. There are also road problems. We request you, sir, to get all these issues rectified.

    — Preetham Preethu · Haravu, Mandya, Karnataka

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