Examine the ways in which India would benefit from the port-led development envisioned by the Sagarmala Project.
Sustainable agriculture is the responsible and profitable production of food and fibre in ways that benefit the natural environment, sustaining people’s health and the health of communities. Some of the most effective approaches include: Organic Farming Focus: Organic style with no synthetic chemicaRead more
Sustainable agriculture is the responsible and profitable production of food and fibre in ways that benefit the natural environment, sustaining people’s health and the health of communities. Some of the most effective approaches include:
Organic Farming
Focus: Organic style with no synthetic chemical pesticide, fertilizer, or GMO.
Benefits: Promotes better soil structure, minimizes pollution of water, and enhances the number and variety of organisms which can live in soil.
Challenges: Some requires more labour and at times knowledge and skills that can only be provided by experts.
Precision Agriculture
-Focus: Leverages technology in tracking productivity; through GPS, sensors, and drones in the utilization of resources.
-Benefits: Reduce losses, reduce potential harm to the environment, and improve the returns obtained.
-Challenges: This calls for massive investment in technology and expertize
Regenerative Farming
-Focus: Rebuilds the soil structure, structure, and production capacity of native species.
Benefits: The gain of soil moisture and reduction of soil erodibility without the loss of carbon stock.
-Challenges: It is observed to transfer from conventional agrarian applies.
Other Sustainable measures
Crop rotation: Reduces the use of pesticides and increases the utilization of fertilizer as fertility.
-Cover cropping: Reduced soil erosion rate while enhancing the proportion of soil organic matter, and weed disrupting minimal.
-Integrated pest management (IPM): Applying interrelated strategies, cultural, physical, and biological and chemical control methods with little or no utilization of synthetic pesticides.
-Agroforestry: The management of trees and shrubs within crop and livestock.
-Conservation tillage: Minimises compaction of the soil and costs associated with erosion, water infiltration and runoff as well as soil temperatures.
-Water conservation: Irrigation water management efficiency and Rainwater harvesting.
Organic waste composting: Biodegradable wastes are converted to useful manures.
Port led development is an integrated approach to modernise the ports and to integrate them with SEZs, port-based smart cities, industrial parks, warehouses, and logistics parks and transport corridors in the country. The Sagarmala project was launched in 2015, with the objective of promoting port-lRead more
Port led development is an integrated approach to modernise the ports and to integrate them with SEZs, port-based smart cities, industrial parks, warehouses, and logistics parks and transport corridors in the country.
The Sagarmala project was launched in 2015, with the objective of promoting port-led direct and indirect development and to provide infrastructure for the same. Sagarmala project would be leading to port led development in following ways
So far, the impact of the Sagarmala project has seen mobilization of over US$ 61.6 billion of infrastructure investment, doubling the share of inland and coastal waterways in the modal mix, boosting the merchandise exports by US$ 110 billion. Owing to India’s extensive coastline of 7,500 kilometres covering 13 states and union territories and a significant portion of India’s trade being moved by sca, port-led development envisaged under Sagarmala project would be beneficial for India in following ways:
However, there are certain issues, which need to be addressed in terms of huge investment needed, projects viability for the private sector, impact on the fragile coastal ecosystem such as erosion and pollution etc. Thus, there is a need to take various steps to sustain the progress through port-led development. Some of which includes establishing a port regulator at all ports to monitor and regulate services and technical and performance standards, undertaking the environmental clearance process seriously for port projects, accommodating coastal communities engaged in traditional fishing and establishing a special purpose vehicle for making investments in ports.
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