The Indian Farmer

Essay No. 01

India is an agricultural country. Majority of Its population lives in villages and depend on agriculture The Indian farmer is the backbone of the society. Hi. importance in the economy of the country cannot be over emphasized. He grows corn, vegetables and fruits for our food and cotton for our clothes.

The Indian farmer is a hard working man. He works from morning till evening in the scorching heat and biting cold. Early in the morning he drives his oxen to the fields. He ploughs the fields, sows seeds and waters the plants. An Indian farmer depends on monsoon. He looks after the crops and saves them from being spoiled by stray cattle or wild animals. He enjoys no holiday. At noon he takes his meals under a shady tree and then takes a little rest. In the evening he returns home, tired and exhausted.

The Indian farmer leads a simple life. He lives in a mud house, eats simple food and wears coarse clothes. Generally he is illiterate. He believes in old customs and superstitions. His cattle are his most valuable property. Often during drought crops fail and he is in trouble. When the crop ripens, he feels happy. He reaps it, thrashes it and takes the corn to the market. In times of a bad harvest he has little money to buy seeds and manure and he runs into debt.

An Indian farmer earns his bread by the sweet of his brow. He is never idle. Our late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri gave us the slogan, “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”, underlying the fact that farmer is an important as a soldier. Really he deserves a better treatment. More educational, medical and irrigational facilities should be provided to him. On him depends the well-being of the whole nation. In the real sense of the term, a farmer is the actual bread giver of the nation.

The farmer is fond of festivities. He spends lavishly on marriages and others social ceremonies. Recently, the use of agricultural machinery and chemical manures and the provision of credit facilities by cooperative societies and rural banks has improved his lot and changed his outlook on life.

In spite of being independent for the last more than fifty years we have not be able to improve the lot of Indian farmer. Most of them still live under the poverty line. They do not get full return of their yield and they continue to be poor and neglected. The biggest industry of India, Agriculture is still neglected. The educated masses of India are not attracted towards the profession as it does not guarantee a prosperous living to them. The developments in Science and Technology have not been able to make agriculture an enviable profession. This is the reason of the biggest problem of this land, that is, unemployment. If modernized on a large scale it can employ all the unemployed youths and the country will be for more prosperous than we dream about it.

Essay No. 02

An Indian Farmer

Agriculture is as much important, if not more, as the industry in a country. Thus here lies the importance of our farmer. An Indian farmer is the backbone of the society.

His importance in the economy of the country cannot be over-emphasized. He grows corn, vegetables and fruits for our food and cotton for our clothes.

The Indian farmer is a hard working man. He works from morning till evening in the scorching heat and biting cold. Early in the morning he drives his oxen to the fields. He ploughs the fields, sows seeds and waters the plants.

He looks after the crops and saves them from being spoiled by stray cattle or wild animals. He enjoys no holiday. At noon he takes his meals under a shady tree and then takes a little rest. In the evening he returns home, tired and exhausted.

But he leads a simple life. He lives in a mud house, eats simple food and wears coarse clothes. Generally he is illiterate. He believes in old customs and superstitions. His cattle are his most valuable property.

Often during drought crops fail and he is in trouble. When the crop ripens, he feels happy. He reaps it, thrashes it and takes the corn to the market. In times of a bad harvest he has little money to buy seeds and manure and runs into debt.

The farmer is fond of festivities. He spends lavishly on marriages and other social ceremonies.

Essay No. 03

An Indian Farmer

India is an agricultural country. The prosperity of India depends largely upon agricultural production. A farmer is the main factor in this production. His contribution to country’s prosperity is enormous. The farmers live in villages which are the centers of agricultural production. A farmer’s life is very busy. He is engaged in one thing or the other throughout the year. His activities include sowing of seeds after tilling the fields, watering them,—building fences and reaping the crop. After reaping the crop, he has to separate the grain and sift it. A farmer works from the very early morning till sunset every day. His life-style is very simple. He lives in the house of mud and wears simple and coarse clothes. His property consists of a few bulls, a plough, land and a house-. He lives from hand to mouth.

Essay No. 04

An Indian Farmer

As India is an agricultural country so a farmer is an important person in our society.

It is the farmer who grows corn, vegetables and fruits for the country. Farmers lead a grueling life throughout the year. Agriculture is their main occupation. They depend on the monsoon and the fertility of the soil for their final luck after year long toil.

Most farmers are opposed to the introduction of new methods in agriculture, because they believe in old traditional methods. They work hard from morning till evening ploughing the land with the help of the bullocks. After that they saw the seeds, water the fields and then remove the weeds. Then they tend it and protect it from crop predators till it ripens.

A farmer earns his measly living when his hard work bears fruit. He reaps the crops and thrashes it to sell them. He leads a very simple life in the lap of nature. He lives in a mud hut. His property at most comprises a handful of bulls, a plough-share and a few acres of land.

For better standards of living, farmers should experiment with the new method of agriculture and this can be done by discarding the old methods. Only by applying the new agricultural methods, the rural community can improve on the whole. It would then bring Gandhi’s dream come true.