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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