Guest guest Posted January 19, 1999 Report Share Posted January 19, 1999 On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, COM: Madhava Gosh Prabhu wrote: > More of a crisis than Y2K in agriculture is the lack of young farmers. >My one brother is 47 and the other is 41, and the younger one and a few >others > between him and the 47 year old are the youngest farmers still working. >There are virtually none younger than that. What are your nephews planning to do? As it seems there's a healthy profit from your brothers' farm, are they not planning to continue in this successful family business? It's nice to hear of a farm that has been able to keep the whole family together. On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, COM: Hare Krsna dasi wrote: > >Somehow or other our farm communities must make the commitment to training >young men in ox-powered farming, and putting them on their own land. This is such a vital point, the essence of our future stability as a society. Is there any information on the ages of devotee farmers? How many work their own family farms or have secured land from ISKCON? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 1999 Report Share Posted January 28, 1999 COM: Nistula (das) ACBSP (Sri Pundarik Dham - Bangladesh) > >This is such a vital point, the essence of our future stability as a society. >Is there any information on the ages of devotee farmers? >How many work their own family farms or have secured land from ISKCON? > My understanding is that there are very few devotee farmers and the only land that has been secured from ISKCON has been bought at fair market value putting the devotee farmers in a finnancial bind and taking their time away form farming and into securing money.The concept of drawing up a contract for devotees committed to the land and not requiring a purchase so as to facilitate them in developing a land based society has never taken place. In the same instance, so much land is owned by ISKCON and lies idel. This is something that we have been trying to change for years and is an essential part of taking care of your cowherds. Your servant, Chayadevi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 28, 1999 Report Share Posted January 28, 1999 > .The concept of drawing up a contract > for devotees committed to the land and not requiring a purchase so as to > facilitate them in developing a land based society has never taken place. In > the same instance, so much land is owned by ISKCON and lies idel. This is > something that we have been trying to change for years and is an essential > part of taking care of your cowherds. > > Your servant, > Chayadevi I have even proposed letting good growers be on the land and make payments in kind, which also has the effect of guarantueeing a market for the grower, but response has been lukewarm at best in NV, despite it being strongly recommended by Srila Prabhupada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 14, 1999 Report Share Posted February 14, 1999 > > > COM: Nistula (das) ACBSP (Sri Pundarik Dham - Bangladesh) > > The concept of drawing up a > contract for devotees committed to the land and not requiring a purchase > so as to facilitate them in developing a land based society has never > taken place. In the same instance, so much land is owned by ISKCON and > lies idel. This is something that we have been trying to change for years > and is an essential part of taking care of your cowherds. What was the result of these efforts, it happened somewhere? We want do the same thing in our farm with some agreement, do you know something about it? What are the dates (or numbers) of ŒP Morning Walks with these issues? Ys Rama Keli dasa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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