Science Policy and Parliament

issues, etc The local vidnyan mandal of the village would be announced alongwith the expectations from it. The organisers or the yatra have decided to follow up the process started in this yatra and hence the establishment of these mandals is very important in this respect. It was made clear that the yatra does not have any ready- made formula to solve the problems of degraded agriculture. The solution has to be found through the interaction of farmers and pro-people scientists. The perspective outlined in the slides and the techniques recommended need to be concretised and refined further. This can be done only collectively and as part of the people's movement.