In this modern era of scientific advancement, agricultural technologies are reaching new heights. However, despite this tremendous development, farmers and agricultural workers seem to suffer from poverty and hunger wherein, many commit suicides, owing to their poor financial background, which does not allow them to pay their ever growing debt, or even afford to feed the mouths of the entire family.
Firstly, the exploding population has put an enormous pressure on today’s farmers, forcing them to work to their bone in order to meet the growing demand for food crops. Consequently, this large scale farming leads to many agricultural workers from a lower economic background to apply for agricultural loans, which comes with a hefty interest rate that these poor people have a hard time paying back. In addition, the harsh and competitive business war between vendors and retail supermarkets results in needless lowering of prices of the crops, ultimately spelling disaster for these poor farmers who decide on skipping a meal or two, in an attempt to pay back the debt in a long run.
Furthermore, the unpredictable climate can prove to be fatal for crops, negatively impacting the livelihood of individuals whose lives depends on the harvest. For instance, extensive global warming in India has delayed the monsoon as well as extended the summers countless times in the past, which drastically brings down the yield due to the death of the crops. As the farmers have nothing to sell, they have nothing to earn as a consequence. Therefore, these people have to burn through their measly savings, which is barely enough to survive, failing to satisfy the hunger entirely, in these dire situations where food prices skyrocket due to shortage, leading to further demise of these unfortunate workers.
In a nutshell, robust innovations in the field of agriculture and life sciences fail to save the lives of these poverty-stricken farmers from the clutches of nasty debts, as well as unforeseen weather conditions, causing an infinite number of silent cries from these hungry people’s mouths go unheard every day, in one or the other corner of the world.
In this modern era of scientific advancement,
agricultural
technologies are reaching new heights.
However
, despite this tremendous development,
farmers
and
agricultural
workers seem to suffer from poverty and hunger wherein,
many
commit suicides, owing to their poor financial background, which does not
allow
them to pay their ever growing debt, or even afford to feed the mouths of the entire family.
Firstly
, the exploding population has put an enormous pressure on
today
’s
farmers
, forcing them to work to their bone in order to
meet
the growing demand for food
crops
.
Consequently
, this large scale farming leads to
many
agricultural
workers from a lower economic background to apply for
agricultural
loans, which
comes
with a hefty interest rate that these poor
people
have a
hard
time paying back.
In addition
, the harsh and competitive business war between vendors and retail supermarkets results in needless lowering of prices of the
crops
,
ultimately
spelling disaster for these poor
farmers
who decide on skipping a meal or two, in an attempt to pay back the debt in a long run.
Furthermore
, the unpredictable climate can prove to be fatal for
crops
,
negatively
impacting the livelihood of individuals whose
lives
depends
on the harvest.
For instance
, extensive global warming in India has delayed the monsoon
as well
as extended the summers countless times in the past, which
drastically
brings down the yield due to the death of the
crops
. As the
farmers
have nothing to sell, they have nothing to earn as a consequence.
Therefore
, these
people
have to
burn through their measly savings, which is
barely
enough
to survive, failing to satisfy the hunger
entirely
, in these dire situations where food prices skyrocket due to shortage, leading to
further
demise of these unfortunate workers.
In a nutshell, robust innovations in the field of agriculture and life sciences fail to save the
lives
of these poverty-stricken
farmers
from the clutches of nasty debts,
as well
as unforeseen weather conditions, causing an infinite number of silent cries from these hungry
people
’s mouths go unheard every day, in one or the other corner of the world.