Rethinking Revolutions: looking beyond crop productivity to measure agricultural prosperity
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The popular notion behind any ‘revolution’ green, yellow, white and blue is the remarkable ability to frame the agrarian crisis in terms of production alone.
At a time when doubling farmer’s income in the next five years has become the catch phrase, the policy emphasis is on the oft-beaten approach of boosting crop productivity, reducing the cost of cultivation, expanding the area under irrigation and providing a unified national agricultural market.
This makes me wonder: if increasing crop productivity, which is what economists and policy makers have been relentlessly asking for, then why is Punjab, the food bowl of India, faced with a terrible agrarian crisis? In a State that has 98 percent assured irrigation and where the per hectare yields of wheat and rice match international levels I see no reason why farmers should be dying. Is there something that I am missing in my
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Subir Chowdhury receives IISE Honorary Member Award
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LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is honoring Subir Chowdhury for his lifetime contribution to quality engineering and management with 2021 IISE Honorary Member Award. The IISE Honorary Member Award is the highest honor IISE can grant an individual of acknowledged professional eminence. In IISE s 73 year history, Chowdhury is the 30th recipient of the Honorary Member Award. Past recipients include W. Edwards Deming, Lee Iacocca, W. J. Bentley and Herbert C. Hoover.
Subir Chowdhury is chairman and CEO of ASI Consulting Group, a global leader on strategic initiatives, quality management and engineering consulting, and training. He has been helping his clients in many industries to transform their organizations by embracing quality and develop processes that increased profitability by saving billions of dollars a
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