The Indian Farmer

 

      The real India resides in its villages. About 70% of India's population lives in rural areas and earns its livelihood there. The major occupation lives of these people is agriculture. 90%  of this rural population is dependent upon farming for their livelihood. Thus, Indian economy is totally an agrarian one. It is the Indian farmer who reaps his motherland with his sweat and blood to get us a day's meal.    

A typical Indian farmer's life is full of trials and tribulations. He leads a very hard life fighting against the ravages of nature and weather. He is an extremely hard working man - begins working from early morning, even before daybreak till late in the evening, sometimes even after the sun has set. He works incessantly all day long without resting except for an hours or so when he takes him humble lunch.

He goes to the field early in the morning with his cattle when the rest of the world is sleeping comfortably in their warm beds. He rarely cares for the heat, or the rains or the cold. He faces all the climatic hardships without any complaints. He continues to work through the day's heat, sometime with his entire family helping him. it is only at noon that he thinks of taking a few minute off  to eat his meagre lunch and rest for a while under the cool shade of the tree. But soon he gets back to his hard labour and toil.