Mirage and Reality of India

Mirage and Reality of India
Why Farming and Farmer have always been cynosure of politicians, academicians, bureaucrats or the new the breeds of technocrats?
The answer is quite simple; India is a democratic nation, where majority rules through its representative and the ones who are in majority are the farmers. More than 2/3 of the Indian populations are dependent on farming for their livelihood.
So, there are large numbers of persons who have chosen the designation of farmer and profession of farming by choice.
This is something which has become a history or has it ever existed? Now, If we call someone as a farmer then it is generally signifies joblessness and are being looked down in the society.
Our society and economy has evolved in such a way that a person who earns even Rs 4000- 5000 per month, has more respect in the society than a farmer who earns significantly more than them. Due to this skewed behavior and lack of recognition farmers are always looking for a tradeoff in favour of some job which can give him recognition and monthly salary.
Let’s try to get a deeper understanding of the problem by analyzing it through two different streams:-
Organizational Behavior
Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs states that the utmost need of a person is their physiological/biological need and when this need is met he moves up in the ladder with several steps like safety, belongingness etc. .
A person with job can easily move up in the ladder after meeting its 1st step physiological need whereas for farmers it is very difficult to move from 2nd -3rd step and the from 3rd - 4th step.
So Farmers, being a human being with a limited life period, is ready to choose the path, which can meet most of their needs in their life span.
Finance
Unlike a person doing a regular job, the cash flow for farmers is once or twice and if he is lucky it may be thrice in a year whereas his expenses are like us almost constant throughout the year.
It may seem to several well of service people as if this is not a problem; So let’s be empathetic and think of a situation where you get your salary in 12 months or in 6 months and you have to meet your regular monthly expenses. With the constraint that your god, your boss, may deny or reduce your income anytime, just like the weather god for farmers.

So, In order to boost the dignity and self respect of India, let’s give respect to the person called farmer and assist the nation by assisting the farmer in real sense.
From wherever we are and in whatever manner possible!!!