Farmer Is The King

Early morning he woke up at 4:00 a.m. took his torch, stick and plow, started walking towards his 4-acre farming land to check the condition and which rice crops he can harvest this time. But the land is not so up to the mark for harvesting. Ramayya as the name suggests he is such a simple and cool farmer. he told his son Virendra to take two of their oxen for plowing the land. The whole day both father and son along with their two oxen sweat a lot in plowing the 4-acre land. Virendra did his MSc in agriculture and helping his father in farming activities. On the other side, the paddy crop is ready to enter into the plowed land. But water is the only blocker. Luckily they have calf canal nearby their farming land and his son, wife Janaki and daughter Devi helped in making the way to the water to wet the farmland. Finally, the farming land is perfectly ready to plant the paddy and the family did its heart fully. Crops are growing as expected but in much need of water. this year clouds have so dried no rains at all Ramayya disappointed to the core and afraid of all the paddy will get dry, but his family supported him in getting water from the nearest pond since the calf canal was dried and made the paddy fields alive again. few months later he is very happy to see that rice grains are coming out from the plants. 5 months later the whole farming land is looking like it is showering gold. For the next 20 days, the whole family spends their all days in cutting, stacking, handling, threshing cleaning and hauling the fully harvested paddy. Finally after 150 days the race grains kissed the land. Ramayya felt very emotional and happy because his family made impossible as possible by harvesting 200 quintals for 4 acres which is 50 quintal per acre because he used hybrid seeds. But his happiness didn't last for long time due to market down no buyers are showing much interest to buy the grains. some buyers are ok to buy but for very less price which is not even enough for the investment. In deep sorrow he was fallen on his knees as like a cut down tree. That night family didn't eat and went for sleep. Virendra is thinking about his father and slept. Ramayya went and took insecticide drug which didn't work on killing the insects in the farming land but effectively worked in killing Ramayya. Suddenly Virendra woke up from his dream and he is sweating as if he had bath, check the time it is 2:00 a.m. in the morning drank some water and went to his father room but he is not there in the room, in a hurry, he went to rice godown where they kept all the rice grains. His father is staring at the pile of rice bags and thinking about what to do. He explained to him how to sell the whole rice grains when the market is not buying. The next day morning Virendra called his friend who is working in the city community apartments as a supervisor. explained the whole problem to him and requested his apartment people to buy the rice grains. He got convinced and explained the same thing to the apartment people. Initially, the apartment people didn't agree but they said OK to buy all the rice grains for the entire apartment since they are getting the quality food for less price than the supermarkets. Ramayya's family felt very happy because they got three times more profit than usual. They cleared all the debts and kept some money for the next harvesting. This time farmers didn't commit suicide. The next day morning again Ramayya took his torch, stick and plow and started walking towards his farming lands for summer crops.

To get one rice grain it takes 150 days, 4 cleaning process and nearly 20 people are required, think before you waste Food

Jai Kisan

Farmer is the king by Durgaraju