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................