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To: arun gera who wrote (65759)	8/26/2010 7:51:06 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217656

Thank you for your clarifications.

To: arun gera who wrote (65759)	8/29/2010 6:10:56 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217656

One can gain huge advantage by distortion of application of the skill'spool. Distortion of the skills' pool is: "little programming skills could get them a job or assignment in US...or at least they joined with that hope" This was specific case of India's civil engineers. In the last 50 years exodus from the fields left Agriculture behind. Today: India is the world's IT house Brazil the farm and the mine of the world. Brazil became world's the farm because while thw world slept it prod on: (University of Minnesota agricultural economist Phil Pardey) research shows that in the 1950s, U.S. farm productivity was increasing by about 2 percent a year. In recent years, the rate of increase has slowed to slightly more than 1 percent a year. Pardey says one reason for this is a slowdown in the rate of growth of public spending on agricultural research and productivity. Fewer people working to discover new ideas means fewer new ideas to apply in the field. Brazil prod on: A year after “The Limits to Growth” appeared, however, and at a time when soaring oil prices seemed to confirm the Club of Rome’s worst fears, a country which was then a large net food importer decided to change the way it farmed. Driven partly by fear that it would not be able to import enough food, it decided to expand domestic production through scientific research, not subsidies. Instead of trying to protect farmers from international competition—as much of the world still does—it opened up to trade and let inefficient farms go to the wall. This was all the more remarkable because most of the country was then regarded as unfit for agricultural production. In the four decades since, it has become the first tropical agricultural giant and the first to challenge the dominance of the “big five” food exporters (America, Canada, Australia, Argentina and the European Union). economist.com Perhaps they can never again catch up: Farming is a long-term business where decisions made today affect outcomes tomorrow. Farmers plant a crop in the spring and wait until fall to see how the crop turns out. They build a new livestock facility and wait years for the investment to pay back. They select the genetics of a dairy herd and wait three, four or five years to see the results in the bulk tank. Cutting corners on essentials today often means lower returns and less productivity tomorrow. bemidjipioneer.com