Asif Nisar
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Join date : 2012-06-07
Age : 32
Location : Lahore (54000), Punjab, Pakistan
 | | Subject: The Life of a Farmer Sat Jun 16, 2012 12:42 pm | |
| The Life of a Farmer Pakistan is an agricultural country, so the farmer is the backbone of our nation.
Life in a Pakistani village is much the same as it was two thousand years ago. The houses, dress, manners and customs of the people are on the whole unchanged; our farmers use the same kind of ploughs and bullock-carts as their ancestors did in the past.
Our farmer is generally a humbe, simple villager who does not even know how to read and write. So people who live in towns rather look down upon him, and call him a rustic. People have no cause to moak him for he is an important man. Without him, we should starve. The whole nation depends on the farmers for food. If the farmers did not work, where should we get our bread, rice, sugar, fruit, vegetables and milk from? The town-dwellers, with all their cleverness would starve if the farmers did not send their wheat and maize, milk and eggs, rice and vegetables in the markets.
The farmer though illiterate knows his work. He knows how to make the land bring forth good crops. He does not use tractors for he cannot afford it. He, therefore, relies on his knowledge which he has inherited from the forefathers.
The farmers leads a very hard life and knows no leisure. He gets up before sunrise and takes his way to the fields. There, he starts ploughing, sowing, wedding, watering, or reaping.
In summer, breakfast is brought to him by his wife or a daughter. His midday meal he takes under the shade of a tree. He then sets to work till sunset. Evening finds him back among his family when he takes a hearty dinner. When that is over, he smokes hookah and chats to his brother farmers. Soon after it is dard, he is tired and goes to bed to rest for the night.
His daily life changes according to the season. He may be hard at work or idle for days together. H has his hobbies, Dogs, horses, parrots and pigeons are his favourite pets.
He has health, though not wealth. He is simple and credulous. He is quiet, thoughtful, Godfearing man but very superstitious. He has a great respect for custom and tradition. | |
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