My Three Great Masters --( Gurus)

I Express my deep sense of gratitude to all of my three Great  masters (Gurus) whose blessings helped me to rise up  to the  post of the Additional Plant protection  Adviser (IPM) from  initial post of the Technical Asstt (BioControl)in the Directorate of Plant  protection Quarantine and Storage,Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare of Govt of India.
I did my Bsc and M Sc from Janta college Bakewar Distt Etawah (UP) affiliated with the then Kanpur University Kanpur .Here I would like to write  few lines about my most beloved and respected academic  Guru Dr .Om  Prakash Raghuwanshi,Reader and Head of Department of Zoology in Janta college Bakewar.He was a strict administrator ,oarater ,lecturer,Scientist,academician,and knowledgeable person having a very good managerial quality.I had been a student of the Zoology  Department both in undergraduate and Post graduate  level in this college .Dr Raghuwanshi  loved me very much . He himself was very punctual and self disciplined person and also liked  similar type of students .Once he tought only two students in a class for whole period  only becoming few minutes late    of other students  coming in the class.He was very hard working professor as once he helped me in making a stuff of a  bird Owl even in very  peak summer day. After getting me  job  , on my request he issued me a certificate about my behaviour  ,performance of collection and preservation of zoological specimens ,their preservation and mountings and also about taking part in excursions tour and academic trips especially during tour to   OKHA port  about my worthy performance in collecting the marine animals ,preserving them and identifying them.His certificate helped me in facing various interviews during my service periods,.Though he is no more but his blessings  are still with me .I will be highly obliged  for him always.
  Dr. Mahima Chand Diwakar is my professional guru who tought me the a b c d of plant protection and I  P M. We usually call him as an IPM Sant as he is an encyclopedia  of IPM    Though he is  a renound Plant Pathologist but having a vast knowledge and experience of almost all the branches and disciplines and activities related with plant protection including locust control and plant Quarantine. He wrote several books ,research papers, Editorials  on different aspect of plant protection and IPM . He is also one among all others the founder members of the National IPM  Programme in India.He is  like a central rod of the plant protection umbrella  and headed Pest  surveillance and IPM schemes in the Dte of plant protection  Quarantine and storage. He a nonstop speaker on  plant protection.As a professional guru he charged me with several IPM Mantra,thoughts and ideologies which finally forced me to become IPM Philosopher.
I will be highly obliged  for his encouragement  in my life .
I am a follower of Radha soami satsang  Beas and my spiritual guru is Baba  Gurinder Singh  ji who also blessed me with Namadan. I have no words  to say any thing about his grace and mercy showerd on me by him in all steps  of my life.I will be no more without his blessings  and mercy.

IPM should be a political agenda for making the Govt

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is committed to provide safe food to eat,safe water to drink ,safe air to breathe ,safe environment to live comfortably, quality agricultural commodities to trade  to the society  besides  this it  is also committed to conserve nature and its resources like soil,water,air,beneficial flora and fauna,biodiversity etc and is also helpful to maintain ecosystem and natural balance in the nature.IPM is also helpful to maintain  community health, and all other essential things which help to sustain life on earth.It is also helpful to enhance the farmers income and to upgrade their  livelihood. It also helps to do various socioeconomic activities and it is the main occupation of the Indian farmers .presently Agriculture has become non profitable occupation and  due to which the youngsters farmers or persons don't want to do Agriculture.Agriculture has now become a risk prone occupation and having natural and man made greater  potential of various types of threats. IPM is also helpful to combate various types of  threats. It is also helpful to  maintain the smooth Agricultural  trade both national and international level.It also help us to provide all essential elements required to  ensure life on earth.
         Agriculture has now become multi objective occupation and IPM help us to achieve all the objectives. It also help the society to prevent the  environmental pollution including soil,air and water pollutions .It also helps to combate various types of the emergencies  related with natural and climatic issues .
          In order to minimise the problems described above and also to prevent the crop failure due to over use of the chemical pesticides and to prevent the farmers suicides and other problems related with  the govt policies  etc IPM must be included in the political agenda for making Govt both Central and state level to prevent the overuse and mis use of the chemical  pesticides in  Agriculture and also to keep environment safe, clean and green.

IPM

IPM is not a symbolic activity or programme but it is a practical activity or practical programme to grow safe crop with safe environment and safe health  of its creatures .Until  or unless we will not practice it we will not get the expected results.Self  involvement ,self motivation ,self awareness is the key mantra of motivating and  awarering others.

Let's Change the IPM mandate

IPM Technology has already been described and demonstrated in most of the crops in different states among the farmers through IPM Farmers Field School Programme.It has also been described in different IPM package of practices issued by different agencies ..Now there is a need to ensure the availability of IPM inputs to the farmers at their doorsteps. It  Should be the next main mandate of the IPM schemes working in research and extension sides  both at central and state level for which Govt must establish the industries of the producing the IPM inputs parallel with production of the chemical  pesticides industries .lt should be the second mandate of the IPM  programmes .The restoration of the damaged ecosystem and conservation of the natural resources must also be given priority though Ecological Engineering and programmes for the  conservation of beneficial fauna and flora in the ecosystem.
     IPM package of practices must also include the control measures  related with  political,rgulatory ,Emergency,Social,climatic,economical ,ecological ,Environmental and natural problems and emergencies.
      All corners approach must be applied to reduce the use of the chemical pesticides in Agriculture with an aim to produce safe food ,fodder ,feed,to eat and also to produce quality agricultural products or commodities to trade and also to keep Environment green and clean.IPM must also be included as an political agenda by all the  political parties in order to provide safe food ,safe water ,safe air  to society and also to sustain life on earth and also to upgrade the livelihood of the farmers .