Economics of Traditional Fruit Bearing Trees

Tall and age old mango and jack fruit trees were very common even in our towns until recently.They used to feed all family members during seasons and relieved them from buying vegetables from the market.For example, during mango season the fruit in its various stages served as ingredient to pickles, curries, etc.So is the case of jack fruit trees.Not only the tree's owner benefitted, neighbours also got positive externalities from, say, a big tall mango tree.But mad rush for urbanisation and changes in food habits led to merciless cutting of these nature's treasures.
Thus, there was an economics of self sufficiency, food security and environmental sustainability in the good old days.And that can be considered as the good effects of joint family of the olden days.
But what is happening today?Kerala state which turns out bumper crop of jack fruit, for example,
does not consume much of it.Extreme food habits of our society and a dislike for our traditional food items has made our state dependent on non-local vegetables and fruits.Surprisingly, no person is interested in analysing supply trends from traditional fruit trees and the conservation of traditional fruit trees.Our state's agricultural department must learn lessons from Vancouver city's fruit gardens, community agricultural fields and orchards, school gardens and the like.

Whom You Support?

A widely publicised and exaggerated viewpoint in Kerala is that we depend on NRI money.
But what about the poor farmers and cultivators in the highranges who produce our traditional export items like pepper etc?
Keynesian identity states that in an an open economy

Y=C+I+G+Nx+K,

where Nx is net exports and K is capital inflow.
NRIs add to K and a good part of it is spent on consumption, especially conspicuous consumption.
Poor cultivators add to Nx.
Now the recession has adversely affected both K and Nx.But our politicians, journalists and others exaggerate the case of NRI returnees and forget about the poor farmers who are badly affected by both globalisation and recession.Moreover, their income adds to productive capital and not to conspicuous consumption.
There is a powerful NRI mafia. No persons, except some NGOs, cry for farmers.
Now whom do you support? The NRIs or the farmers?

Music's DMU

Music purifies your mind and soul.
Hearing song of a cuckoo in the summer afternoons brings happy thoughts to one's mind.
But too much vulgar music and imitations interferes our daily life in our state.All channels and private FM radios throughout telecast and broadcast reality shows.Even third rate singers and composers are treated as celebrities.Even worst songs are rated as exemplarary.The body language, egoistic appearances etc of the singers is nauseating.It seems that Kerala society is giving too much importance to music than other fields.
The age old law of DMU is applicable in the case of music nowadays.

Kerala's Backwardness

Why Kerala is backward compared to other states?
My answer is that psycho, social and political factors play leading roles than economic factors. Some of them are

1.A highly egoistic psychic society suffering from neurosis,
2.Consuming culture and luxury fever,
3.Dominance of religious capital,
4.Absence of political plurality, that is, no alternative for the right-left coalitions,
5.Powerful mafias and interest groups everywhere, even in arts, literature and sports,
etc