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The farmers enter the fray -Gurbachan Jagat

-The Tribune Distressed as they were, the final death blow is sought to be delivered in the agricultural reforms. Why not have MSP till a better alternative is found? Why let the oligarchs loose to prey on farmers? Was there a demand from farmers for these reforms? How has the Centre decided suo motu that this would benefit farmers? IT was the early 1960s and I spent two years in my ancestral village in Punjab, two searing summers and two bone-chilling winters — all without electricity and its attendant conveniences. Life for the typical farming household started before daybreak around 3 am in summers. I would hear the tinkling of the bells as the farmers would start moving out with their ploughs and oxen in order to finish the day’s ploughing before the sun came up. An acre was the maximum you could plough with oxen and irrigate i.e. if you were fortunate enough to own a Persian wheel. Otherwise you put in the seed and looked up to the sky for rain. It is pertinent to mention that farming was still being done in the old organic way minus the commercial fertilisers, pesticides and all the overheads that come with modern agriculture. In addition to the ploughing, fodder had to be fetched, cattle taken for grazing, water had to be brought, etc. All in all, it was a hard but simple life, with joys and sorrows which were shared by all. There was hardly any money and consumerism was unheard of, the old barter system took care of the basic needs. The village was indeed one big extended family. But time, science and greed were conspiring to change all this, to disturb this tranquil balance. Please click here to read more.