Tuesday 29 March 2016

Dedicated to All Who Invest Their Life in Feeding Us and In Return We Have Nothing to Repay

Being an Indian, we all know how rich our country is. Not only the nation's history has carved its eminence in the entire world, even today it is making remarkable achievements in almost every field. And this makes us believe in India having a promising future.

But, we lack something and that has/will strictly hamper us country's success and growth in terms of standard of living – Ignorance to increasingly worse financial situation of FARMERS. The steps we take decides the level of respect we pay to our fellow citizens and what measures we take when they are in distress.

FARMERS

Farming constitute the major occupation of India. More than 65% of the population is into farming and this is the only percentage group that is unable to eat two times meal. Farmers grow crops that are used in almost every industry especially in the food industry. Getting three times meal and two times snacks has always been a part of our basic need.

But, an eye-opener is yet to come. Farmers, who feed us, do not get meals even once a day. Why? Because of the never-ending debts. The prices for sowing seeds, maintaining fields, and harvesting the growth exceeds the income they get after selling it. Plus the weather changes and untimely rain ruins all the crops, resulting in them going under debt, interest of which increases exponentially.

They are not able to repay the loans because of zero income. The misery could end here but No, it won't. Besides the farmer, his family suffers – no fooding, no education for kids, and future in total darkness.

The main issues is the lack of education and opportunity for any other occupation they can go for. This way their kids lack the future as they get no education and they would have to live life with quite a similar fate.

There are countless stories of farmers committing suicide and as their life ends, everything goes unsaid and undiscussed, consequences of which can be severe. Since the year 1995, the agricultural world has been facing grave issues and one of them is ignorance towards our farmers. Even today, everyday there are tens of farmers committing suicide and bringing an end to it is how we can pay them back.

Bringing norms, policies, and rights in the favour of these grass level people can help us deal the worse situation in a better way.

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