Agriculture is not a lucrative activity today. But still, people continue with it only to get
entangled more in debts. This behavior defys basic logic. Why do people take a loan to run into a loss?
Counter arguments will include; they have been doing it for
generations, farmers are feeding the world, what else can they do, etc. No
doubt these are all true but does not
answer the above question.
But for the farmer, many others have profitable careers in
the name of agriculture. That is the strange
way, economics works. Economic force is different from the other physical
forces of nature and does not obey the
basic laws (of nature)! (compare it with laws of motion).
Perched in the lowest deck, the farmer is always at the
receiveing end (!) In the higher decks, the market man winnows the heavier sparkles
and leaves the chaff for the farmer. Conventional economic theory stops here
(the pyramid).
A finer look at the structure, reveals that there also exists
a class of people who hover around the (pyramid) theme of agriculture, without ever getting their foot soiled or
hands tainted.
In order to make farming profitable, the decks must be
inverted. However, the decks are highly
related to the level of education. Hence it is important that farmers are highly
educated (quality education).
A lot of educated youngsters have turned to farming as a profession. None of them, to the
best of my knowledge, are entangled in
the vicious debt cycle. Education liberates them. It empowers them. The may be
smart enough to think that ‘solar farming’ may be more rewarding than crop
husbandry. Two seasons of crop husbandry and one
season; solar husbandry!
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