In India the farmer is generally a
humble, simple villager, who has had a very little or no schooling and in some
cases who does not even know how to read and write.
So people who live in towers rather look down on him and call him ignorant. But h is not ignorant of his work, though he may not study like a student. He knows his load thoroughly and he knows how to make it bring forth good crop. He has got his knowledge of farming from his father and has learned it by practical experience and so he is a skilled workman, who knows many things of which town-dwellers are quite ignorant and he is an important man..
So people who live in towers rather look down on him and call him ignorant. But h is not ignorant of his work, though he may not study like a student. He knows his load thoroughly and he knows how to make it bring forth good crop. He has got his knowledge of farming from his father and has learned it by practical experience and so he is a skilled workman, who knows many things of which town-dwellers are quite ignorant and he is an important man..
Without him we should starve. The
whole nation depends on the farmers for food. If they did not work, where could
we get our bread, rice, sugar, fruit, vegetables and milk from? The
town-dwellers, however clever they are, would soon starve if the farmers did
not send their wheat and maize, milk and eggs, rice and vegetables into the
markets.
The farmer’s work is varied by the
seasons. When the first monsoon rains have softened the soil, he sets to work
ploughing his fields and planting maize or Indian corn, sugar-cane and cotton
for the autumn harvest.