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
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