Travelling across California by train, i am struck by the similarities...in fact, so may identical facets of life here between the small towns and villages here and our villages in India. The same cracked roads beside the rails, the same type of hedges and chain link fences, the same electrical and telephone poles even!
Its no different from our Mandya, Ramnagara or Channapatna..infact the scenery here is rather drab, with nary a human or a house between miles of land. Of course i am travelling in the winter, but that doesn't mean im traveling in a season devoid of life in the farms. The only difference that i felt which was very noticeable was the size of the farms..even a farmer sitting on the edge of an average type income has acres of land in his domain. But then again, the result of it is very short of grandeur in terms of income. To sustain himself, in this vast country ( so vast that it celebrates new year thrice in a single day!) , he needs to have this amount of land. Farmers in Mandya and Maddur may have less land to till and harvest but that is sufficient to eke out a living there..there is absolutely no difference wrt to their countries, how they stand financially!
That is another myth busted i suppose about most farmers being rich here due to the vast lands possessed here..there are i suppose a similar ratio of rich to poor farmers here. But one thing to introspect..if the small fare have big farms, what are the sizes of the big guns here?
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Ya, very true and I'd like to put like this.. most of the big guns out here (India) are equivalent to the farmers there..
my mention of the big guns was to the commercially big farmers...my blog was to underline the fact that all our myths about being prosperous by default cause ur an american are false badri..
What you say is farmers are the most suffered financially, no matter where they are?
hmm ompi, that wud be too broad a generalisation...this bit is just to say that the grass is no greener on the other side..tho i shud say, its very mechanical here...all machines..even the diary farms milking 100s of cows had 1 guy to a 100 cows and the udders were attached to machines..
Makes perfect sense, but as an onlooker looking at a profession i'm least exposed to...i would say life of an American farmer is much better than that of an Indian. Atleast, i hope (or guess) they don't've to face any such dire consequences which force them to commit suicide....
This thing should be fixed dude. There should be something which reduces/nullifies this kind of mortality rate in India.
Nice Article dude!
Can i ask why you specifically targeted the the farmers in mandya/mysore? just curious...
@nish... i love the cruise from bangalore to mysore, and the fields always catch my eye..sort of jumped out...and have been in some fields too..to know their plight..
very coool, a very small part of the land/fields you see from bangalore to mysore is where I born & belong to. (mandya). I too love it.
Felt nostalgic. Good one bro!
-Nischay
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