As every literate person knows, agriculture is the backbone of the economy, we should start our first step by flourishing our agricultural sector which wouldn’t be so costly and tiresome to bear with if without determination. The government should take the little initiative of imparting the farmers with revolutionized scientific methods to yeild high productivity. A little effort in making the availability of revolutionized machines like tractors, mowers, ploughers etc. on a rental or ownership basis would be applauded. The concerned authorities should see to it to happen that the farmers are provided with the best quality seeds and more eco-friendly pesticides and manure.
In the meantime the respective govt. authorities should organize schemes or programs to attract the aspiring local entrpreneurs or corporations to set up small scale industries at the initial stages. We could have a range of agrobased industries to boost our economy and provide employment like producing our own cotton, silk, fibers and textile industries so that in the long run we could produce our own clothes for us to wear, we could also utilize our abundance of variety of fruits as resources. We can help the entrepreneurs with strategic ways to create products and to export it in various districts or beyond. If we could produce other food grains like wheat and barley etc. in our hills and plains then it will be productive because bread, flour and other food products derives from such and not rice.
In our land of “Abundant Green”, the locals should also zeal the interest to rear wide range of livestocks in bulk as it serves many purposes. We could depend on cows, yaks, goats etc for milk. With this we could also set up household or small factories to produce cheese, butter, curd and other dairy products for our consumption and to export it as well. We can also rear sheeps for wool and meat, and other livestock for hide, hairs etc. as we need the products deriving from them in our daily lives in the form of leather, brushes, wax etc.
Since we have abundant rubber plantations we have to find ways to utilize it and not just to export the latex to other States. For one instance we could set up factories to produce rubber shoes with convienently affordable price tag so that the people could obtain it easily even if the quality could not match with that of the foriegn goods. And in order to create a demand for our local footwears, we could create running events like marathon for the general public and cross country race and other sporting events for schools in district and state level. We could also promote and advertise the universal benefits of jogging and running to reduce stress and boost our metabolism. There are also many other day to day needed products derived from rubber so we should instead of sitting idle push ourselves to every possibility we have the opprotunity to grasp.
The govt. officials should start giving back to the people by performing their responsible duties by feeling contributive in our developmental process. They should also make the people aware of the importance of bees for sustaining our Floura and Fauna kingdom and help growers with measures to grow and harvest honeybees effectively.
Once we have multiple means of production then we can target markets and reach out for more consumers. With rapid industrialization there would be force emergence of other mechanisms like advertisement firm, accountant firms, online stores, delivery and transportation services, patent and legal firms etc. And as modernasition hits one system, it will ripple its way towards every system and it will lead to more growth of our economy.
These initial measures to uplift our ecoconomy before the arrival of need of sophiscated technologies to sky rocket our economy, wouldn’t drain out the State’s treasuries as some govt. officials may fear. It will befall at the cost of some few hundred Crores at the expense of actually doing some productive thing for our present and future. And to some govt. officials who feel (excuses) that development is not possible without the Naga solution, one can only rightfully question them what the purpose is for the existence of the State government, then.
Sovereignity is sovereignity and development is development and if the govt. officials cannot differentiate between the two then it is only right that they resign from their responsibilities and give some other the chance to develop the living condition and struggle for existence for some, in this drastically hard economy because without economic sustainability how can a person manage to survive to live in Nagaland before or after, any kind of Naga solution. Although this is case sensitive, from a rational point of view- if without our basic rights as a human being, like liberty, econimic rights, equality, human rights, freedom of speech and expression, fundamental and civil rights, right to fraternity, right for development and life etc. what good is any government.
Instead of being chained to the rhythm of the pattern of the system that has enslaved us, what if we could examine and understand the pattern by means of “critical reasoning” and work as one (which is not an impossible thing), collectively for the emergence of a harmonious Naga nation without being solely influenced by all the atrocities and policies of the past and narrowing our reasoning capacity.
