Globalization and Small Farmers

        'Globaliation','Privitalization',"Industrilzation"---No doubt the moment when we listen such heavy words,the visual picture what comes to our mind is of pinalce buildings,mammoth IT palaces,posh shopping complexes,malls etc in other words in a language of modern man we can say DEVELOPMENT,but have we ever seen or even just thought atleast what is its impact on agriculture sector especially on the developing countries like INDIA,SOUTH AFRICA,BRAZIL?Its brutal story, simply brutal!!!
        
        Coming to straight just have a glance at data collected in INDIA----

1)182,936---this is not the salary of any IT enployee,its the number of farmers who have committed suicide in INDIA IN THE PERIOD OF 1997-2007 that is in the span of just 10years.(National Crime Records Bureo (NCRB),a wing of ministry of home affairs)

2)800,000--this is the number of farmers who had quit farming between the censes of 1991-2001.

3)1997-2001 in the span of 5 years 78737 farmers committed suicide and in next 5years it increased to 87567,on an avg for every 30min a farmer took his life.

4)By early this decade the avg monthly per capita expenditure of a small farmer family was 503rs(10$),60% on food.

5)510grms this was the per capita net availability of foodgrains in 1991,by 2005 it dropped to 422grms.

      So what this above data really tells us,it gives the severe picture of small farmers lives and also possible affect of it on common man's life.Dont have prejudices that i'm here all the way to just blame globalization,no i'm not,not at all!!!But i'm here to just share the opposite facial view of it.LETS NOT BE IN THE ILLUSION THAT THIS FARMING PROBLEM WONT AFFECT US,THINKING ITS NOT MY BUSINESS...REMEMBER THE SINKING BOAT DOES NOT SINK ALONE,IT TAKES ITS PASSENGERS ALSO!!!

     Now if we think about small farmers situation seriously,the big question stands infront f us is why the situation is so worst,if in the countries like India only story is so poor then what about the african countries,can u imagine?ITS JUST NIGHTMARE.And the reason for it is -SUBSIDIES given to farmers in the west,but not allowed to give in DEVELOPING COUNTRIES,JUMPING RATES OF PESTICIDES AND OTHER FARMING NEEDS,MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES LOBBY,NO SUITABLE MARKET FOR THE CROPS,MEDIATORS MESS UPS,SNATCHING LANDS OF FARMERS IN THE NAME OF INDUSTRILIZATION---And the ultimate result is huge debts and which leads to the death of a farmer,our society may call it as suicide,but the reality is its a brutal homicide of meak man by the globalization.....
     Man is chopping his own leg by forgetting the roots from where he has come from...the suicides of farmers is a warning bell to the humanity,if we wake up now only then its well and good otherwise tommorw a time'll come when we'll have money but not food.SMALL FARMERS MAY LOOK SMALL FOR NAKED EYE BUT THEIR SERVICE TO SOCIETY IS NOT SMALL,LET'S SAVE SMALL FARMERS AND SAVE OURSELVES................
    
    

Anna Hazare Phenomenon-The Fire Against Corruption

Ex Super Cop-Kiran Bedi

Anna Hazare

Arvind Kejriwal

 It was April 4 2011,
          the whole country was still in the happy hangover of INDIA'S worldcup victory.The men in blue led by young,dynamic captain M.S.Dhoni created a new history by lifting the WORLD CUP after 27years,but no one had thought till the dawn of April 4 that the past cricket history is going to be a prologue for the another history to be written by a team led by a 71yrs old man KISAN BABURAO HAZARE alias ANNA HAZARE.
          Perhaps it was not a popular name which many people were heard off  but now this name has become the ray of hope for all those who feel frustrated,disgusted about the system we are living with.Its not that people want to uproot this whole democratic system,but when the leaders who rule us fails to understand people's voice,their feelings, it leads to a big blow to the system,which is what exactly happened in the form of Anna Hazare Movement against Corruption, in other words INDIA AGAINST CORRUPTION.
          Someone has said '' Power Corrupts But Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely",in fact Power and Corruption are the two faces of the same coin.In democracy, actually the real power is the common man only,but the same common man once get elected by his own people as their representative and enters the corridor of power forgets  his duties and responsiillites and becomes the slave of corruption.Corruption is not a new word for Indians,its there since India's inception.We Indians are used to with this problem.But this time it crossed its limits with every day new scams were unfolding starting from Adarsh Society,common wealth,2g spectrum,denotification(thanks to Right To Information Act).all politicos became naked infront of people,not just politicos even journalists,corporarate giants all became the part of dirty corruption game.So this all made people so much frustrated that people were waiting to express the outrage against corruption,and Anna's Voice and Leadership gave a platform for that,and all walks of people supported Anna Hazare like as if its the war against corruption and politicians.
          Anna Hazare's demands were not so tough that our democratic government cant fulfill it,he just asked for the set up of Joint Drafting Committe to bring the strong Lokpal Act with the help of which leaders,bureacrats who betrays the nation can be punished and justice can be made.But our rigid governments was not ready to accept the demands and gave the blind citation of unprescidental happenings,but when day by day his fast unto death agitation got strengthened by the suppport of youth of this country,even power corridors shook out and at last bowed its head against Common Man's Voice,accepting to set up Drafting Committe in which 5members from the civil society got seat among the 10 members.
          Anna's not the single one to lead such huge movement,Aravind Kejriwal,Kiran Bedi,Swami Agnivesh and many others supported and worked for it.The Crusade'll not end here just by the announcement of Joint Drafting Committe,its just the bigining,the road ahead is not easy but its not even impossible also...lets see what's there in the Pandora Box!!!
          MERA BHARAT MAHAN