Guest guest Posted November 20, 1999 Report Share Posted November 20, 1999 Haribol prabhu Thank you for your straight-up and inspiring suggestions. I guess it's importance has been repeated again & again on this conference. But good to hear you have positive hope for us cowherds that there's a market for our livelihood. We should indeed explore this... I'm not the business-type of person though, rather a sentimental cowboy. One remark: <<I think a very positive step in this conference will be an ethos of vigorous encouragenment for devotees to make their livelihoods from oxpowered agriculture. This is a good suggestion, but encouragement is already there I think. I'm afraid that will not prove sufficient. I would add to it: " and for managers to set up systems of support for devotees who wish to get started"... Any sane society has its support system for farmers who want to get started. Unfortunately under the temporary climat this just serves gross exploitation of both animals and the Earth. We should prove the proper practices of farming, but defenitely lack any support. Just look at how our Ministry has to somehow function for one... What to speak of those wanting to make a livelihood from agriculture. Just to get started only is already such a hardship and in most cases enough to discourage anyone away from the idea. I speak from personal experience... if I would have had the support needed, I would be developping my farm by now. I just lost a wonderful opportunity to buy a farm (cheap) just because I lack the money. I just don't have any after having dedicated myself for 3 years to the temple. And this is just peanuts. I know there's many others in more dramatic situations ... so for now I'm stuck with my desire only and taken realisitically it will take me years to get sufficient money together (unless a similar opportunity pops up again, but it's unlikely... prices are going up continually). So for our future generations of cowherds and to avoid further embarrasments of abuse and even slaughter, we should seriously develop support systems to first of all EDUCATE people in the proper practices, then HELP THEM FINANCIALLY to get started and FOLLOW UP their projects. All this has also been suggested in this conference several times, but I'm just repeating it here... there seems to be some power in repetition. Just encouragement will not be enough... dirk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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