Indian Farmer

     India is an agricultural country. It is the land of villages. The dwellers of these villages are farmers, and thus the Indian farmer represents India in its true sense. They are the son of the soil and the backbone of the country. Indian farmer lives a busy life all the year round. He is strong and sturdy. His work is rough and tough. Usually he gets up at cockcrow and goes to his fields with his plough and bullocks. He gets busy ploughing, weeding, sowing, watering, reaping, trying up sheaves, building up haystacks, or threshing. He is never idle, but is always busy doing something. He knows that he must do everything at right time, or else he would be ruined.

     His wife brings him his mid day meal. He sits under a shady tree, and eats well. He has a keen appetite. He enjoys every morsel of his simple food. After meals, he has a short nap. Then once again he sets to work. He earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. He stop working at sunset, and goes home. After the bullocks are properly attended to, he has his evening meal. Then he meets his neighbors. They have a nice pastime, chatting, singing holy songs. Then the farmer lies down. Sleep steals over him. It is a sound, undisturbed sleep.

      The Indian farmer is uneducated, and so he depends on the moody monsoons. But he has enough practical knowledge of agriculture. Now efforts are being made to encourage him to use the scientific methods of farming, and let us hope that in near future, the Indian farmer will be as well-off as his western counterparts