Technologies Versus Foods

High-value non-essentials versus low-value essentials

- Sajikumar

Human history still boasts about the agricultural revolution, farm mechanisation and the flourishing food processing business. In a country like India, the agriculture sector still boasts about employment generation, an estimated 40 per cent of the total jobs and backbone of the rural economy. - Sajikumar (Mumbai-Based Author and Blogger)

The modern corporate valuation formula exposes the human follies as essentials and never-ending needs are underrated while non-essentials are rated too high.

One does not need to be so brilliant to discover that food is the most potential business without which none can live even a day. Where do all the foods come from? Humans cannot survive without farmers and farmlands. This essentiality itself constitutes the business potential of farming and trading of farm products. But farming is not as lucrative as any other business, which is not essential for human survival. Farming is the least lucrative, though no human being can live without food that comes only through farming sources. It is a grave distortion of the order of nature and a paradox.