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Haribol prabhus,

 

pamho agtsp

 

I read with interest and appreciated the points made and would like to offer

the following to the discussion.

 

There is at present a concern over the different levels of spiritualisation

as otherwise persons can develop within the existing karmi rural economy

apart from animal slaughter. Certainly people need time to develop their

spiritual life, but the essence of living in a devotee community is that it

is aspiring to come to some standard - not a policing situation but where

you feel that people are striving genuinely for Krsna consciousness.

Otherwise we will probably encounter some or recycle some old problems. I

would genuinely not like to develop with a community not aiming for the

above, and would probably fair better outside of that model. It has caused

problems already.

 

Also although we acknowledge cow protection as the central pivot of rural

existence or development, the sustainable rural model will allow for

diversification of rural economic practice in related areas, therefore

making it viable for people to develop realistic incomes. The 21st C model

is currently not working for small commercial farmers because they have

become boxed into bad practice. Therefore if there is good practice it

follows that it will be sustainable and the repeatability factor will

continue but this needs to be developed. So rural development will have

primary cow protection development and secondary rural economic activities

either as spin-offs, diversification through necessary related skills such

as relief programmes, or other secondary skills such as cottage industry.

This is a sustainable method of rural development. To ensure that there is

the 21st C apsect to it for example in setting up cottage industry, there is

assistance available in some cases, but not all.

 

Finally, householders may indeed be the key, but it needs more to maintain

the links. Most farming families maintain a small proportion of their

children in farming practice here at the moment. The statistics for farming

in devotee households are weaker. The problems encountered to date are where

householders don't secure their own premises rather than seek the option of

purchasing temple lands. If householders strive sufficiently to provide a

place themselves, they usually place more value on it and are sometimes more

likely to develop it. This is our personal experience. However there needs

to be some type of system to assist families who cannot secure but direct

sales may not be the solution in the initial stages perhaps some controlled

leasing - which devotees already didn't take kindly to here. There needs to

be real education in vaisya skills and the marketing of products and

services, then the practical work becomes financially sufficient. This takes

a cooperative approach or good individual marketing skills. It may also take

specialisation if an income is what people are looking for, otherwise it

will only work on the self-sufficiency scale whereby excess can be disposed

of by a variety of methods. I think there could be a debate about what the

general mass of devotees think farming is, as there is a growing percentage

who feel it is producing some part of their food needs etc, but not

necessarily going the whole way.

 

ys

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I think there could be a debate about what the

> general mass of devotees think farming is, as there is a growing

percentage

> who feel it is producing some part of their food needs etc, but not

> necessarily going the whole way.

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> ys

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Even the brahmanas grew some of their food, but vaisyas who would grow

grains.

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