Thoughts on farming and farmers in india.

                                          My Thoughts on farming and farmers in India.

                                                                                                                           A.Libin Antony

                                                                                                     

        Hi Everyone it's been very long that  i posted content on my blog., Today i was just thinking about the farmers protest in Delhi.,  in this issue i was completely ignorant , I don't know much about this three farm laws but what i know was " FARMING".,  Because i am from a traditional farming family , right now we are in other professional works , still our family actively involved in farming., whenever we get time in the weekends and holidays , we do farming. Right now we are growing bananas and tapiocas , so we know that what are the challenges faced by the farmers. Lets' get into the issue , we all heard the phrase in our childhood that farming is backbone of our nation , was it true? we all know how farmers are treated in our country and how their demands are Met? When i heard the word farmer, i get pathetic feeling in my mind. Government doesn't facilitate the needs of the farmers from the start of sowing to harvesting., They all incurred with the huge amount of debts. They don't have rights to fix the price of the crop which he cultivates and price is fixed by the third party and majority of profit is going to middlemen's. 

   Government has poor policies on farming and farmers , when they faced with huge natural disaster they don't get any kind of relief funds from the government , Majority of the farmers are not aware about the crop insurance and how to apply it . Government only focuses on technology and space oriented kind of things., Just think which is important , "SPACE or FOOD"., Space is for limited set of peoples , but food is for all. Government is spending crores and crores in money in research and something which is not accessible to middle class peoples. I know that , Travelling in aeroplane is still dream to many middleclass families., but they are planning to develop a new life in mars , life in earth is in the state of jeopardize . 

        There are no shortage of farmers in our country , but the problem is they are doing farming in internet., they actively sowing in WhatsApp and Facebook and harvesting in twitter., these kind of farmers always remember one thing that " posting status like  save farmers and save farming doesn't work , you should understand the problems faced by the farmers and giving the voice to the farmers in  a right way.

    I remembered this quote Dwight d. Eisenhower  saying "  You know, farming looks might easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field".

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