From farming field of Bangladesh

Farmers are working in their field.

Farmers are passing very busy days in order to prepare their paddy field for Irri (cultivation of rice).  Men, women, even their children are working hard. This discussion is very much intended to make an understanding of the significance of farming or agriculture as an occupation among the peasant people in very recent Bangladesh.
The information in this essay has been gathered through several informal interviews in a village situated in south-western Bangladesh. Farmers were very spontaneous during the interviews.

As far as people could remember, their occupation was always farming. But, for last some years, dramatic changes which interrupt the lives of the people related to the field for years have been taking place in the field of agriculture. Now most of the people from the  new generation of farmers are no longer the solids farmers. They are rapidly losing their interest in farming and getting involved with other sources of income. Some reasons are functioning very crucially to make them so, but this discussion is about one aspect of these changes.

The current agricultural production system in Bangladesh is standing on very imbalanced relations between investment and gross. “It is now very difficult to lift investment from the field”, a farmer claimed. The more the new technologies are being accepted in agriculture, the more the farmers are being depended on it and getting detached from their indigenous technologies. Therefore, the artificial modern technologies are being mandatory for them.  Although these technologies provided different ways of production, increased the proportion of production as well as made cultivation faster than the past, it is so expensive  that all farmers from all parts of the country are not capable of having access to it always ‍. For recent seasons, the costs of fertilizer and other technological service are being increased rapidly and going out of farmers' hands. Farmers informed that they had to spend about 600 TK to produce every 40 kg of rice, but they did not get their expected price; instead, they sold it at 500 every 40 kg. Until the investment and gross become balanced, the farmers will keep losing their interest in agriculture gradually.

Farmers and other conscious people of the country think that government should take some effective steps to fix the crisis.