The person who engaged in various types of agricultural activities is a farmer. He is the bread-giver of the society. Our Bangladesh is an agricultural country. Here most of the people are directly or indirectly related to agriculture. Nevertheless, the life of a farmer in our country is very much struggling. His life evolves round the evil cycle of poverty. He earns his livelihood by the sweat of his brow. He has to work from early morning till late evening. He gets up early in the morning and takes a little breakfast. He goes to his field with his wooden plow and a pair of weak bullocks and other handmade simple tools. He prepares his land well for the cultivation of crops. Sometimes he remains so busy that he can not make time to go home for the mid-day meal. His little son or daughter or his wife brings his meal which he takes/finishes sitting on the aisle of the land. He becomes very happy when he sees a good harvest in his land. But he becomes down-hearten when his crops are destroyed due to sudden flood, drought, and cyclone or for any other reasons. A farmer leads a very simple life. He lives from hand to mouth. It is an irony of fate that a farmer is the provider of food, but he himself does not get three meals a day. It is a matter of great anxiety that, now-a-days farmers are becoming unwilling to different agricultural sectors. This is happening due to the low fertility of land, high prices of seed-corn, hard manual labour, uncontrolled prices of fertilizer etc. Immediately the government should find out the reasons behind it and also should give a hand to them.
