The farmer cannot stay without sowing

The farmer cannot stay without sowing

In itching skin scratching habit cannot be prevented. The one who owns the land cannot remain without sowing. When you look at the difficulties that arise before sowing and reaping each time, it appears that the next time farming should not be done at all. It’s like a child birth zeal. Agriculture will continue next year just as the next child will be born.

Those who put ‘kuruvai’ will think that it will be enough to put ‘kuruvai’ again next year. But not without putting. Most of the year the crop gets caught in the rain. The paddy in the rain will be dry enough and it will be enough to put it in the trader. This 2021 rain has paved the way for some destruction.

This year's crop was harvested in the Tamil month of ‘Puratasi’ and in the English month of October. It was raining every day or one day after one day during these months.

According to the weather report, the northeast monsoon will start on October 20. Such a rain before that. This rain is said to cause heat transfer and rotation of the atmospheric overlay. Can the rain tell the crisis of the farmers?

If the water has been opening in June in Mettur dam in recent years it brings out a fear in me. At first my father would decide not to put the ‘Kuruvai’. Then he does not know where a hope will come from.

My father's hope was that what he sowed in the soil would not go to waste. How will humans survive if the land is left barren? It is often said that at least ten people can survive only by sowing.

I know very well that my father has spent a hundred rupees each time in ‘Kuruvai’ and harvested only seventy-five rupees. Nothing can be said of him in reference to it. He will get angry. He would immediately ask me if I thought I was spending unnecessarily. How can at least four people in a society survive if the money they earn is locked up?

With the question I asked in mind many times he said he would return to ‘Samba’ if he faced lose in ‘Kuruvai’. He will return the three-quarters of the money recovered in ‘Kuruvai’ to Samba. Even ‘Samba’ can't recover him. In our village it is a miracle to see more than eight bundles in the field ‘samba’ that has been planted. On top of that, if you get insurance or relief fund, you can put some credit in the profit account. It goes without saying that such an opportunity is available all year round. It may be Available or unavailable.

I think the money spent on farming in the years when relief fund or insurance was not available would have been of interest if it had been put in the bank. Don't talk about it, he says at least four people have survived on the agriculture we did.

I wonder how these people can think like this. There is a lot of boredom and loss in agriculture. Yet the feeling that we are operating in agriculture gives them some impetus. According to their views, Moving to work match them is profitable, Without moving and working is loss and disadvantage. Otherwise the profit and loss available in agriculture does not matter. That too does not particularly think of loss as an end in itself.

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