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Hope you all are doing great.
There is also a negative trend in India where the upcoming progenies of farmers are hesitant to take farming as profession due to the wormhole of problems they are suffering from.
The portrait of a farmer.
Let’s do a small activity just imagine an American farmer in your mind, what was the picture that struck your mind...a banded shirt individual with Levis jeans and a Jute cap with a tiller or a modernized combine harvester and cute little farmhouse!
Now repeat the same and imagine an Indian farmer what is the picture you recapitulated? An old man who is weak and sad tilling on a barren land with an old hut which can fall on a rainy day?
We strongly condemn the all the ministers who have taken this issue very lightly as we have seen in some press interviews the cheap comments what they speak to evade the media, and we also question the human rights activists who fight for saving criminals! Now where is there part in this issue?
Many of you can feel we are actually bringing it the negativity out ,but this is the sad truth ! when USA which is considered as the number one in all fields in the world can give so much to a farmer why can't we? Once upon a time the learned men say ,we were the chief hub for the spice chain throughout the world but know the tables are turning and the backbones are getting fractured each day and living a hopeless life this a treachery.
We had read an article in the economic times which was about the MNCs from the US ,Canada ,Australia Netherlands Israel are investing in Indian agriculture and the positives of it and also the perfect technological advancements that they were ready to offer in cold seed biotechnology and so on these type of actives has to be encouraged.
We also appreciate the present Government for the steps taken by them towards cooperative farming the concept of food park which was recently inaugurated in Tumkur ,Karnataka.
We are sure we can change this ,we have the best brains in the world ,but there are many barriers of which is not letting the flow of knowledge the upgrade out agricultural practises to achieve greater heights .
Hope you all are doing great.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labour of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
-Daniel Webster
-Daniel Webster
India is a land of villages. Where, majority of the population in India depend on farming. In terms of crop output India is only second to China. The farmers are considered as the backbone of the nation. In reality, the backbone status looks like it’s just on papers.
The luxury of food what we people are relishing today is only because of the farmers. But have we ever even thought about them? Is it not our duty to know about the challenges faced by them and don't we all feel ashamed when a poor farmer commits suicide.
There are thousands of farmers who are committing suicides; news channels telecast them without any cessations and for us it has become a type of entertainment. After the news we just natter about the issue with others and that day is over. We have to be ashamed of ourselves. If not something big at least we can do a little for the betterment of the farmers.
There are many whys and wherefores for which farmers commit suicide, but the main issue to be addressed is the debt-trap to which the farmers fall into. Farmers usually take loans from the private financiers. These private financiers harass the farmers at the time of the repayment of the loan. The interest amount charged on the loans would be very high. As we all know that more 70% of our country’s agriculture is relied on rainfall and the remaining on irrigation.
The luxury of food what we people are relishing today is only because of the farmers. But have we ever even thought about them? Is it not our duty to know about the challenges faced by them and don't we all feel ashamed when a poor farmer commits suicide.
There are thousands of farmers who are committing suicides; news channels telecast them without any cessations and for us it has become a type of entertainment. After the news we just natter about the issue with others and that day is over. We have to be ashamed of ourselves. If not something big at least we can do a little for the betterment of the farmers.
There are many whys and wherefores for which farmers commit suicide, but the main issue to be addressed is the debt-trap to which the farmers fall into. Farmers usually take loans from the private financiers. These private financiers harass the farmers at the time of the repayment of the loan. The interest amount charged on the loans would be very high. As we all know that more 70% of our country’s agriculture is relied on rainfall and the remaining on irrigation.
When the rainfall is scanty and there is failure of monsoons, it would be evidently a tough job for the farmers to get the yield. There will be very low yield at the first place, and small sacks of yields that are available won’t fetch them good money in the market.
On the whole, the farmers will be trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea.
The situation is getting worse and more worse each day, as the number of suicides are increasing and, we feel one day this will end up as a catastrophe and each one of us will suffer from this as we depend on these people for our food.
We have brain stormed and come out with solutions for this problem ,as we recently read on the news ,first the loans that are due from the forwards should be relaxed and should not be asked to repay,alternatively the farmers have to be given training to handle stressful situations and financial aid is a must .
The members of parliament, can also coordinate with each other and buy stop this concept of 1rupee roti, this system is very sad and highly illogical, we do agree that our parliamentarians run this country but why shouldn't they pay a fair amount as we pay in hotels when we compare a middle class persons remuneration, it’s not even close to the salary what they are earning, why this imbalance?
The situation is getting worse and more worse each day, as the number of suicides are increasing and, we feel one day this will end up as a catastrophe and each one of us will suffer from this as we depend on these people for our food.
We have brain stormed and come out with solutions for this problem ,as we recently read on the news ,first the loans that are due from the forwards should be relaxed and should not be asked to repay,alternatively the farmers have to be given training to handle stressful situations and financial aid is a must .
The members of parliament, can also coordinate with each other and buy stop this concept of 1rupee roti, this system is very sad and highly illogical, we do agree that our parliamentarians run this country but why shouldn't they pay a fair amount as we pay in hotels when we compare a middle class persons remuneration, it’s not even close to the salary what they are earning, why this imbalance?
We strongly condemn this 1 rupee roti concept, because on the contrary the children of farmers and many ill-fated people in India are dying with starvation and can’t afford that rupee.
The next one is the list is the literacy rates of our farmers, according to a survey almost in a survey we studied about this topic we saw that there are at most 30% of farmers in India who are educated, here education is not only the basic secondary education, but also the technical knowledge which is required by them like:
Modern cultivation system) Seeds and planting materials, Diseases and pest management ,Manure and fertilizer management ,Weather information ,Soil and water conservation Irrigation ,Government schemes on agriculture ,Post-harvest techniques ,Market information ,Weeding and thinning Storage of crops.
Market information plays a vital role ,it is almost like a catalyst to the whole process of cultivation, because India is totally a seasonal country and tradition dependent country where we like to eat some fruits and vegetables in that particular month of an year for instance the mangoes in summer and the Hyacinth Bean or the Indian bean cocommonly known in Karnataka as Avarekai.
The next one is the list is the literacy rates of our farmers, according to a survey almost in a survey we studied about this topic we saw that there are at most 30% of farmers in India who are educated, here education is not only the basic secondary education, but also the technical knowledge which is required by them like:
Modern cultivation system) Seeds and planting materials, Diseases and pest management ,Manure and fertilizer management ,Weather information ,Soil and water conservation Irrigation ,Government schemes on agriculture ,Post-harvest techniques ,Market information ,Weeding and thinning Storage of crops.
Market information plays a vital role ,it is almost like a catalyst to the whole process of cultivation, because India is totally a seasonal country and tradition dependent country where we like to eat some fruits and vegetables in that particular month of an year for instance the mangoes in summer and the Hyacinth Bean or the Indian bean cocommonly known in Karnataka as Avarekai.
There is also a negative trend in India where the upcoming progenies of farmers are hesitant to take farming as profession due to the wormhole of problems they are suffering from.
The portrait of a farmer.
Let’s do a small activity just imagine an American farmer in your mind, what was the picture that struck your mind...a banded shirt individual with Levis jeans and a Jute cap with a tiller or a modernized combine harvester and cute little farmhouse!
Now repeat the same and imagine an Indian farmer what is the picture you recapitulated? An old man who is weak and sad tilling on a barren land with an old hut which can fall on a rainy day?
We strongly condemn the all the ministers who have taken this issue very lightly as we have seen in some press interviews the cheap comments what they speak to evade the media, and we also question the human rights activists who fight for saving criminals! Now where is there part in this issue?
Many of you can feel we are actually bringing it the negativity out ,but this is the sad truth ! when USA which is considered as the number one in all fields in the world can give so much to a farmer why can't we? Once upon a time the learned men say ,we were the chief hub for the spice chain throughout the world but know the tables are turning and the backbones are getting fractured each day and living a hopeless life this a treachery.
We had read an article in the economic times which was about the MNCs from the US ,Canada ,Australia Netherlands Israel are investing in Indian agriculture and the positives of it and also the perfect technological advancements that they were ready to offer in cold seed biotechnology and so on these type of actives has to be encouraged.
We also appreciate the present Government for the steps taken by them towards cooperative farming the concept of food park which was recently inaugurated in Tumkur ,Karnataka.
We are sure we can change this ,we have the best brains in the world ,but there are many barriers of which is not letting the flow of knowledge the upgrade out agricultural practises to achieve greater heights .
With that note we leave you with these thoughts and we feel we can all work as team and help the farmers to come out of this misery.
Living with Hope
Harish Murthy and Tejus R.S
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