Hi
Farmers are not poor, they are made poor.
In Mahabharata there is saying "The most wonderful thing in this world is that, although everyone is dying, people think that they will somehow live forever."
Like the same way everyone in this globe work hard for a meal but they behave as if the food is not important. Before we studied three important things for a human that is Food, Cloth & Shelter but now it as become Shelter, cloth & food. Again a day will come where the former is given important.
In farming business except the farmer everyone else whose business depend upon farmer makes money (seed, fertilizer, govt, bank, middle men, transportation etc). Here everyone else except the farmer is to be blamed, for farmer being poor. For instance take a bank, when a bank provides loan to a farmer after so many much of formalities, the bank is never bothered how the money is being used by the farmer. Most of the banks agri officer ( they don't even know what farming is ) doesn't bother to follow up the farmer. After giving him the loan the bank should help him out to repay the loan by proper consultation to the farmer from the beginning that is from land preparation till marketing. But they don't because they know if a farmer is not able to pay the loan the govt will. Also here the farmer too behaves the same way.
In each and every sector there are people how are not success. And another problem in farming is education, most of the farmers are not educated as I said this education is important to gain knowledge. So this is where the farmers are lacking, they are good at farming but they don't know or really bothered beyond farming ( the important of their product ). If you take other sectors they know the important of their product. Here a farmer does what another farmer as done, he never does any experiment.
Another thing for farmer being poor is the climate change. Here its not farmers fault neither god fault, its the fault of human population. Every one over here needs own shelter, own vehicle and many more gadgets. So now what happened, social and natural forest cover has come down and obviously soil lost its health, it doesn't have the power to pull the rain & now the farmer becomes poor.
At last let me tell you one thing life is a cycle, a day will come where farming sector is going to bloom again and I promise you this is going to happen and we are not very far from this.
Have you ever thought you will be paying a penny for a glass of water.
Whatever the job or business may be, you should love what you do then you never ever will be worried about failure or poor.
Thank you
Sivaram
