Need Advice, Indian Farm land, noobs to farming!

infiniteConciously said:

So today is the day I should've been flying out to India, bearing in mind I've been trying to get out there now for some time and there has just been delay after delay for this reason and that reason etc most of which out of my control. And erm this time round, same thing again.. just er on a global scale.

On Wednesday I was getting ready to pack my suitcase and figure out how to ship all my robotics gear out there and Thursday:- Nope, India is shut to you bro.

I'm absolutely gutted. I would've still gone had I been "allowed"... but Indian Govt announced a day after the Trump ban the same thing for 30 days for most visitors to India. So yeah my heart goes out to anyone reading this in the future affected seriously by any of this virus stuff. But yeah I'm totally gutted, ive put my heart and soul in to some of these plans and I'll probably have to wait another year now or late 2020.

Anyway, I'm going to take this in good spirits and not rant even though yeah I feel like venting for 1000s of paragraphs!

PS. I will rant about capitalism gone mad off the back of this virus stuff though, placeholder in place for that a few posts down!! Mainly monetary policy related//
PPS. so much good stuff happened in the build up to flying out, I was planning to update you guys once I got out there, but I'll do this when I feel better.

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infiniteConciously said:

Thanks primmiemoo, Treg for your replies.

I fear now, this will set the poorest in India back x2 maybe x3 times as hard as it does the rest of the world. Then the vultures swoop in to clean up the countries assets and ride the poor even harder for a decade or two. Plus social media stirring religious hatred doesn't really help either, (which I won't comment further on). Still totally feeling truly sh!t about this whole circumstance for the poverty stricken in India.

For example.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/in/ahmedabad/202438/weather-forecast/202438

I just feel sick for the guys living in cupboards, slums like the below being asked to lockdown for 3 weeks, without daily income or food plus having to queue for hours on end to survive. India is just soo misunderstood on such a global scale and we were due to have a wonderful ten years. I don't think you can really understand the country unless you visit say 8-15 times or do serious hardcore research. Sometimes I think even the politicians that run the country don't understand India.

I just can't understand why the lockdown has been done this way, 17.7% of the globe locked down with minuscule political notice.
This is too much power for a handful of people. Farmers should've had more guidance, as should the migrant workers. Maybe even get them to work together to isolate better for 3 weeks. I guess, that's easy to say with hindsight.

Anyway, I'm truly fortunate my flight was not 3 days earlier and totally appreciate the way Boris and co have handled stuff in this country. makes me proud to be British born.

On a side note. Most of the people I know live on farms they own, so they will be fine, they can work on their land so they are fine, some whom have land away from their residency will struggle a little but they will be fine. The poorest of farmers will struggle the most also as they usually don't live on their plots of land. There has been no farming guidance, or contingency in place that I am aware of. There should've been some guidance.


Note: Not gonna do this now, did it in my last couple of posts elsewhere on the forum.

I'll be away for a little bit now. Flights have been changed for end of April, I'll review again after that and maybe delay until later in summer, I may even put my business up for lease in the UK so I can focus more on stuff back at the farm, as it's a strong uk business that will survive this stuff that I can return back to in the future. Lots to think about.

Stay safe everyone.

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infiniteConciously said:

Thanks primmiemoo, Treg for your replies.

I fear now, this will set the poorest in India back x2 maybe x3 times as hard as it does the rest of the world. Then the vultures swoop in to clean up the countries assets and ride the poor even harder for a decade or two. Plus social media stirring religious hatred doesn't really help either, (which I won't comment further on). Still totally feeling truly sh!t about this whole circumstance for the poverty stricken in India.

For example.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/in/ahmedabad/202438/weather-forecast/202438

I just feel sick for the guys living in cupboards, slums like the below being asked to lockdown for 3 weeks, without daily income or food plus having to queue for hours on end to survive. India is just soo misunderstood on such a global scale and we were due to have a wonderful ten years. I don't think you can really understand the country unless you visit say 8-15 times or do serious hardcore research. Sometimes I think even the politicians that run the country don't understand India.

I just can't understand why the lockdown has been done this way, 17.7% of the globe locked down with minuscule political notice.
This is too much power for a handful of people. Farmers should've had more guidance, as should the migrant workers. Maybe even get them to work together to isolate better for 3 weeks. I guess, that's easy to say with hindsight.

Anyway, I'm truly fortunate my flight was not 3 days earlier and totally appreciate the way Boris and co have handled stuff in this country. makes me proud to be British born.

On a side note. Most of the people I know live on farms they own, so they will be fine, they can work on their land so they are fine, some whom have land away from their residency will struggle a little but they will be fine. The poorest of farmers will struggle the most also as they usually don't live on their plots of land. There has been no farming guidance, or contingency in place that I am aware of. There should've been some guidance.


Note: Not gonna do this now, did it in my last couple of posts elsewhere on the forum.

I'll be away for a little bit now. Flights have been changed for end of April, I'll review again after that and maybe delay until later in summer, I may even put my business up for lease in the UK so I can focus more on stuff back at the farm, as it's a strong uk business that will survive this stuff that I can return back to in the future. Lots to think about.
Stay safe everyone.

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infiniteConciously said:

So it’s been well over a year and one month since I was supposed to go to India for a 3 month break / work on some of these projects. Plus spend some time on my health stuff n India.

A year+ later, I’ve had the most horrid year of my life and still not been to India and had a break! Instead I don’t think I’ve had 2 days off work in a row for a year in retail. Desperate to get out to India but as some of you may have read recently, things appear to be quite bad out there. So I will wait obv.

On a side note one positive thing to come from this crappy year has been that I’ve been forced to start some of my planned projects from the U.K. which seems to be working out really well — I’ve been training my retail staff up on CAD modelling, full stack programming, robotic prod dev, tackling algorithms, open source attitude to hacking and this has been a godsend in terms of distracting me from the annoyance and frustration of not being able to work on my plans. (That I put in place well before covid) and not only that but working in retail has been soooooo hard this past 12 months.

I’ve basically just been a verbal punchbag for some people which has really just put me off continuing in my current line of business. That said I still my Have my health so I can’t be that mad. I can just walk off into the sunset and have an easy life if I chose that path! So I reallly should stop moaning. But I prefer to work so my own fault really.

My crystal Ball attitude to blockchain and bitcoin has paid off rather nicely as well and I plan to work on some other blockchain networks like solana, Elrond, cardano, near, and obv ethereum for dabbling in smart contracts and not focus on the ROI aspect but just the building working products side of things.

I may have some other updates I’d like to share soon but not just yet ! Don’t want to jinx anything

hope your all well
Thanks for reading

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infiniteConciously said:

So it’s been well over a year and one month since I was supposed to go to India for a 3 month break / work on some of these projects. Plus spend some time on my health stuff n India.

A year+ later, I’ve had the most horrid year of my life and still not been to India and had a break! Instead I don’t think I’ve had 2 days off work in a row for a year in retail. Desperate to get out to India but as some of you may have read recently, things appear to be quite bad out there. So I will wait obv.

On a side note one positive thing to come from this crappy year has been that I’ve been forced to start some of my planned projects from the U.K. which seems to be working out really well — I’ve been training my retail staff up on CAD modelling, full stack programming, robotic prod dev, tackling algorithms, open source attitude to hacking and this has been a godsend in terms of distracting me from the annoyance and frustration of not being able to work on my plans. (That I put in place well before covid) and not only that but working in retail has been soooooo hard this past 12 months.

I’ve basically just been a verbal punchbag for some people which has really just put me off continuing in my current line of business. That said I still my Have my health so I can’t be that mad. I can just walk off into the sunset and have an easy life if I chose that path! So I reallly should stop moaning. But I prefer to work so my own fault really.

My crystal Ball attitude to blockchain and bitcoin has paid off rather nicely as well and I plan to work on some other blockchain networks like solana, Elrond, cardano, near, and obv ethereum for dabbling in smart contracts and not focus on the ROI aspect but just the building working products side of things.

I may have some other updates I’d like to share soon but not just yet ! Don’t want to jinx anything

hope your all well
Thanks for reading

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