Saturday, 13 February 2021

Schooling kills Farming

 


13 February 2016 at 15:37 ·
I hate to say this.
In our village only middle aged people labour in fields. The youth are all schooled, and schooled into an uselessness. But they have learnt that to work with one's hands, to farm, to do their traditional occupations is unworthy. They would rather loiter - and I do not blame them because it is 12 years of indoctrination.
Ten years later, there will be no one to work in fields. The lands will get given to corporates.
The corporates will destroy the groundwater and the soil in an attempt to extract maximum profits and abandom the lands after exhausting it.
India will be a ship-to-mouth country again. I hope I am completely wrong in my analysis, and request corrections in my logic.
(I told Krishnamurthy, a Naidu farmer in our place, this. He agreed. he said that after that there will be committees which will pass a statement saying that their policies were wrong, and they will place new policies that will be pro-farmer. But there will be no farmer then.)
Vigneshwaran RK, Rekha Ramu and 34 others
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  • Vanji Nayaki
    I completely agree. This is my point too...But who listens???
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    • Vishnudevi Bala
      Vanji why dont you listen.. you can be a leader and we will follow you..😜
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    • Vanji Nayaki
      U know my plans Vishnu..I only wish everything falls into place soon...very soon. But plans should be at the country level rather than at my level. Which needs right leadership...Totally out of my hands 🙁
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    • Vishnudevi Bala
      Country level 🤔.. ok fine.🖒
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    • Ayshwarya Vijayendran
      Vanji Nayaki
       would love to get a peek at your plan! How to extricate ourselves out of the web? 🙂
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    • Vanji Nayaki
      Am from agricultural family and the first generation to get out of it...So am little better placed than you guys:-). Begging my parents to take me back. They think I am a fool to quit my well paid job. Convincing process is on its way..
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    • Vanji Nayaki
      Am not yet fully into it hence my thoughts are not tried and tested. More over am not sure to what extent you want to come out of the web... Still what I feel is limiting our wants should be the first step. Starting to lead a simple life will make our transition easier...Also should be open to a very normal schooling for the kids along with age appropriate agricultural and agricultural oriented training for them.
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    • Andhuvan Dhanesh
      Akka Its always a * b * ... * y = z
      a is the seed available with you. b is the seed a will produce. z is the national level movement you expect. Produce b and supply it...c d e f.....z will be produced 👍 This is a farmer's way of thinking. 🙂
      Expecting from z is what our education had taught us. 😐
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    • Andhuvan Dhanesh
      Nations were smaller than we see. We are just taught by others to extend our nation to the boundaries drawn by others. But that just takes us into a virtual world where nations look smaller on paper but so much larger in reality that we just can't make it to!
      So we just need to take our idea to our nation - How much we can take our idea to... that much is our nation! 🙂
      Lets create our nation. 😉
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  • Ayshwarya Vijayendran
    I wasn't born in the 50s, but did Rajaji foresee this situation when he wanted to bring Kula kalvi thittam? I think it was branded as casteist, there may have been lots of other issues, but in today's context, I see two important points
    1. A highly competitive (assumed) universal education has left many without time to learn any vocational skills, loss of the artisan community.
    2. Who better to teach than the father, grandfather? Families have been disconnected?
    3. Dignity of labour could have been the demand? I see in Australia, trades people, ( carpenters, plumbers etc) being as highly paid as IT execs?
    4. Did we lose creativity?
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    • Prakash Thangavel
      Problem is respect for manual labor. My family forbids me to work in the field and ask others to do the job. And i will never learn intricacies of farming this way. My father did allfarm work until hr got a bit educated and he started not respecting what he was doing and put me in a big school
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      econonic realities.
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    • Prakash Thangavel
      No Akka money was there but when a govt officer considers farmer as stupid and illiterate, treats him as his subject wat one will do? Even now my dad calls bank officer as sir/madam and they treat him bad even though bank runs with our money
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      yes, i know. its a national mindset where productive work is considered inferior. my village boys are ready to work for half the income as desk boys rather than work hard on the field.
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  • AP Krishnansson
    Corporates will enter farming and farmers will become blue collar workforce
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  • M L Godara Bishnoi
    You are absolutely right mam. Similar situation is here in Rajasthan.
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  • Sujatha Rajendran
    That which I feared the most............our system of education is not skill oriented but it exploits only memory capacity of individuals
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  • Malini Parmar
    My parent's family was farmers. They got out! I, educated for 22 years, couldn't grow a plant but am learning. And i, have never lived in farm, want to go and retire to one! Don't worry, there will be plenty of people like me who will want to keep farming. Already communities, offices are offering patches to residents / employees - some of them will discover passion and move to farming. It is addictive when you enjoy it.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      completely different. a grounded farmer versus a city type moving.
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    • Malini Parmar
      if it is ok for city to accept a farmer, why isn't reverse ok? people have moved for centuries.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      they are useless in villages. they can go to learn, thats all.
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  • Priya Jain
    You are absolutely right. We've heard the same thing from all sorts of people who do not wish any more to follow in the footsteps of their parents - at times rightly so, but in the case of farmers in particular and crafts people - this is a disaster.
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  • Kolappan Bhoothalingam
    At the moment the young minds are slowly turning their head towards farming, sadly past few years with globalisation the native farmers and natural farming which nurtures all humans irrespective of their status are forced to run marathon in the name of globalisation which is a kind of over exploitation. Beauty of India with natural resources and mainly sunlight is most suitable for small scale local economies and local production and local distribution...We still have lot of native minded people who should be considered as important as native trees and native livestock and shall be respected and preserved. These are the gurus we need now to renew the world again with positivity and trueness with kindness irrespective of who you are.
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