Till 1700 century AD, India was counted as the richest country, and that is possible by the India’s growth from its primary sectors especially the agricultural sector. At that period India was the largest producer of textiles and food materials. And India called Golden Bird because for producing and supplying to Roman and in return the country got gold.

But, when the British came they destroyed the primary sector totally by making “draconian laws” including high taxation, cow slaughter, new labor policies etc. After Independence when India faced their worst; only with the sweat and blood of framers was able to survive. That it was the only sources to fulfill the basic desire; hence it is quoted that, “They eat what they grow and, they grow what they eat”.

While, after the 69 years of freedom, the concerns becomes double; the condition of framers is more anxious in 2016.

As the leading newspaper reported in 2014 that, “India has a productive economy with high growth rates. It is developing into an open-market economy, yet traces of its past autarkic policies still remain. In 2014, slightly less than half of India’s workforce (49%) was in agriculture. This translates into more than 50 Crore people (either directly or through their families) dependent on agriculture. The condition of farming in India is worsening day by day. The condition of farmers is even worse”

It is also studied that, “Suicides by farmers touched a grim high in 2015. The year that had recorded 2,590 suicides until October — the higher ever since 2001 — went on to register 610 more deaths in just the last two months. The death toll on December 31, 2015 stood at 3,228, indicating that the slew of measures the government undertook through the year failed to arrest the disturbing trend.”

If the farmers continuous to committing suicide then in coming days the lands will lost their fathers, in the country there will be no farmer left.

The cause for these big steps is not only limited to poverty or natural disaster but also the social factor; we avoid them, as we also known there will no survival without them. We only talk about them, about the problems, about profit and loss. No children want to choose farming as their career; not even their parent’s wants from them to do such type of work because the society thinks it’s not a good enough to do that ,they often like to write books on them; clicks pictures of their problems but fails to understand their emotion, fails to give them equal respect.

On concluding, rather teaching about them and tribal people for marks; we should learn for life. The nation’s requirements to learn from its own civilization and people instead of  those civilizations which comes after Indian civilization.

~Kajal Thakur