We know who are farmers and what
is agriculture, farming, ploughing etc, but Are we giving importance to
farmers? Do we know the value of food grains?
We know that the agriculture is a
backbone of our India, but do we know how the farmers are living? What they are
getting? Are we supporting to farmers?
Farmers never expect anything
from us. They just want to provide food to India and they love to serve people.
Without farmers, without agriculture, we are nothing…
As the technology is improving
day-by-day, the way of farming is changing, implementing new machinery and
tools in the agriculture. Very rarely, we are seeing the traditional
agriculture in the farm lands.
Are we benefitting from plastic
food? Is that good for our health? Why we are ignoring the real and healthy
food which is grown on agriculture lands? Is that because of price/cost, taste,
etc?
Do we know, what is the ratio of
agriculture in India when comparing to other countries?
As per the reports on 2014 - The
number of cultivators and agricultural labourers, it would be around 263
million or 22% of the population (1.2 billion).
Why is this only 22%, because
farmers are coming out from agriculture to earn some amount by doing some
labour works in cities. What if this percentage decreases to 10 to 15%? Is that
percentage of agriculture enough to Indian population? If there is no
agriculture, what we are going to eat? Plastic food? Food which is prepared by
machines?
1) There
are many reasons:
2) Government
is not taking proper steps to encourage the farmers.
3) Farmers
are not getting the hygienic and organic seeds for cultivation.
4) There
is no direct selling from farmers to customers.
5) Middle
men are making profits from both traders and farmers.
6) Not
getting supportive price/cost for the cultivated crops.
If the crop is lost, who is
taking care of that crop? Government or middle man or buyer? No one, Right!
Farmer’s suicide is very common thing in our India. Daily, we are watching news
about this. Are we feeling regret? What are we doing for a farmer? What’s
happening to the agricultural lands? Is this the thing called development by
destroying agricultural lands and constructing the buildings, villas etc?
Activists and scholars have
offered a number of conflicting reasons for farmer suicides, such as anti
farmer laws, high debt burdens, poor government policies, corruption in
subsidies, crop failure, mental health, personal issues and family problems. The
farmer's suicide rate in India had ranged between 1.4 and 1.8 per 100,000 total
population, the figures in 2017 and 2018 showed an average of more than 10
suicides daily.
Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India
Famers, they are innocent, I hope
we are all watching the news that they are throwing vegetables on roads because
they are not getting proper supportive prices/cost on the crop. Are they
losing? No. not at all, we are all losing, If we are not getting the veggies,
what we eat? Instead, they can sell in the market directly, but they are trying
to protest, in some cases, middle men will not allow the farmers to sell in the
market. If employees are protesting, they do pen-down, stop their works in the
offices, the same applies here. They are not stopping the agriculture and not
hurting us, they are hurting themselves. They already know that, they will not
get anything but still they are doing that.
We will not care about the food
and we will through it out like a waste.. There are few Non-Profit
organizations which are taking care about this waste food, whenever we have the
functions in our home or area, just try to contact them to save the balanced
food and donate the food for the poor.
https://www.vagabomb.com/5-Indian-NGOs-You-Can-Volunteer-With-to-Ensure-That-Fewer-People-Go-Hungry
As per the reports: - https://borgenproject.org/top-10-facts-about-hunger-in-india/
One-third of food gets lost or
wasted.
3,000 children die every day from
hunger.
India is not poor, yet hunger
remains an issue.
Culture means cultivate, the way
we cultivate our thoughts in our mind, the same we will be to our nation, if
our thoughts are hygiene, we are good to the nation. Just like the hygienic
foods are good to our health. AGREE?
Help Farmers, Support Farmers,
Support Agriculture, Have hygienic food, Don’t spoil your health.
Happy cultivation..
Jai Farmers
Jai Agriculture
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