By R S Ranjeetha
The very term unconditionally needs to be read, understood and interpreted with a tinge of "conditionality".
Nothing in this world is unconditional, everything comes with a price and hoards of expectations and more so in agriculture. People reverting back to their villages is not the panacea for the agrarian crisis looming large in the country.
There is a proverb in Kannada, which goes like this..."Koti vidhyegintha metividhye ye lesu". However, in the present scenario, with the farmers' suicides increasing by the day, the provern stands as a bitter truth that needs to be examined in a pragmatic manner.
With my observation on agriculture, i don't mean to ring a knell to agriculture, which is so oftenly quoted as the backbone of the Indian economy...a cliche though.
Practising agriculture is not rosy at all.Too much of damage has been done to agriculture,a most respectable job, according to me. A lot of concentrated efforts, a vision, respectability to the profession, greater institutional support in the form of finance, information,guidance, success stories, though not one here and there but a success formula needs to be evolved to save Indian farmers.
Nothing less than a magic wand is required to elevate the agrarian crisis. And it hurts me to read utopic comments about agriculture, keyed in secured physical environment.
Agriculture can be helped only when the governmnet at the centre, state,local bodies, mainstream as well as NGOs pitch in together and work in a complimentary manner.
(We've got a new GUEST WRITER Today. She is a Journalist. I Thank her for sensible interpretation of the issue. Thank you dear friend!)
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