Recently I been to USA.
Few of my fellow friends know this.
It was the west part of the continent. And it was a growing summer. Driest and hottest in the year.
I stayed for three weeks, and the maximum was 113 degree Fahrenheit with 5-10% humidity.
You cannot just roam around in sun with out protection creams. Sun burns would be for sure if you don't.
Rains are very heavy and for very less period. The ground is so dry and hard, it cannot absorb the water. Most of the time floods into nearer river to reach the sea.
The above text were to give you the verbal picture of the landscape and region.
In the weekends I got chance to travel across the state to visit few places. I got shocked by the window side scene. It was jaw-dropping. In mid of that dry land I saw thousands of acres of agriculture land. Not Just that, they have cattle too.
It was really amazing and bunch of questions crawling in my mind. How do they grow this? What is the irrigation source?
After these questions attack, a great shame feeling stuck me.
In a very dry, hot landscape, where water cannot be stored for longer duration, they managed to grow crops. We in India comprising 2/3rd of agricultural land, farmers complaint lack of monsoon, government funding, etc.
I don't say they are not important, but there is still more important stuffs which we need to cultivate. Commitment. If we don't save our farm lands, our next generation are in great danger.
Already we started importing food grains. Agriculture lands being swallowed by realtors.
I really don't know the solution for this. But I can ask 'Who's Mistake is this?'
Few of my fellow friends know this.
It was the west part of the continent. And it was a growing summer. Driest and hottest in the year.
I stayed for three weeks, and the maximum was 113 degree Fahrenheit with 5-10% humidity.
You cannot just roam around in sun with out protection creams. Sun burns would be for sure if you don't.
Rains are very heavy and for very less period. The ground is so dry and hard, it cannot absorb the water. Most of the time floods into nearer river to reach the sea.
The above text were to give you the verbal picture of the landscape and region.
In the weekends I got chance to travel across the state to visit few places. I got shocked by the window side scene. It was jaw-dropping. In mid of that dry land I saw thousands of acres of agriculture land. Not Just that, they have cattle too.
It was really amazing and bunch of questions crawling in my mind. How do they grow this? What is the irrigation source?
After these questions attack, a great shame feeling stuck me.
In a very dry, hot landscape, where water cannot be stored for longer duration, they managed to grow crops. We in India comprising 2/3rd of agricultural land, farmers complaint lack of monsoon, government funding, etc.
I don't say they are not important, but there is still more important stuffs which we need to cultivate. Commitment. If we don't save our farm lands, our next generation are in great danger.
Already we started importing food grains. Agriculture lands being swallowed by realtors.
I really don't know the solution for this. But I can ask 'Who's Mistake is this?'
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