Agriculture: Equally Important for all

In our day to day activities the most important activity we do is eating. Food keeps us alive, creates energy and makes our brains work. A one day fast brings our energy so down, that we start thinking about breaking the fast as soon as possible. Now, after being aware of the importance of the food very well, imagine a day without food, or maybe more than one day, month or year. Is it possible to survive without food? The very much obvious answer is a big "NO"!

Considering the current scenario, India's population is growing faster than its ability to produce rice and wheat. Every other guy/girl, passing out from any rural/urban school, wants to go for any commercial course such as engineering, medical, arts, commerce, science etc. Nobody even gives a second thought of going for any agricultural course.

India has its 73% of population residing in rural areas. Most of them have a source of employment as farming. Considering this fact, the crops they grow can easily fulfill the food requirements of India's whole population. But we should not forget that, a huge part of these crops such as, tea, coffee, rubber, etc is exported to foreign countries and which let our farmers earn some good money out of it. Not only this, India even exports rice and wheat to some countries. So definitely, the amount of grains grown here, will not be sufficient for Indian population itself.

Thinking on a global level, People are heading towards software, financial, managerial fields. Comparatively, the agriculture side of the countries is somehow ignored. Its seems so, people are ready to pay high prices for food, as supply is less but demand is quite high. But the day is not so far, when There will be a flat zero supply and exponentially high demand.

I do agree to the fact that there are various technologies brought into agricultural fields. e.g. fertilizers, harvesting, plowing etc. But to execute such latest technologies, one must have a handsome amount of money in hand. Seeing the status of our country side farmers, it seems quite difficult for them to use these technologies, as they are not even able to fulfill their basic requirements. Not to forget, the vital thing for growing crops on fields is the rains. The rain god is not so impressed of the people around here, that sometimes he doesn’t turn up for long, and when he comes, he ruins the crops to the core.

Day by day the conditions are becoming worse than ever. Nobody is concerned nobody is bothered. Everybody is living for today, not worried about tomorrow. Some are completely unaware of these things. Some are using the land, which was earlier used for farming, now for building sky touching residential or commercial complexes and busy in making huge profits. I hope they will someday realize, that a person can live in a hut in bad times, but will surely need food to eat. We have nowhere to go other than this mother earth. Let her give us food to survive.