Life of famers in India

and
Life of farmers in USA
BY SOUMIK PATRA
 Comparison

A farm in India A farm in USA

 Here the size of the land is comparatively small.  The size of the farm is large
 Owner lives in a main village and travels to the farm every  Owner's house is in the farm
day.
 Due to inadequate supply of water and fertile soil, farmers have to  The farmer makes sure that soil and water resources meet the needs of
purchase high yielding variety (HYV) seeds from market every year. the crop
 The farmer in India takes advice from his friends and elders as well
 The farmer takes the help of technology and sends the soil samples to
as government agricultural officers regarding farming a soil testing lab to check whether the nutrients are sufficient or not
 The farmer takes a tractor on rent, and many still rely on traditional
 The farmer uses tractors, seed drills, harvester and all kinds of modern
agricultural machinery.
bullocks for ploughing the land.
 The farmer owns a storage facility in the farm where he stores the
 He sells his crops in the mandi / market located in the nearby town.
crops before sending it to market.
Since majority of the farmers do not have storage facilities and crops
rot most of the time
 The farmer in USA works like a businessman.
 Many farmers in India are peasants and get eploited by traders.
Farmers of USA

They use modern technology and grow multiple

crops at the same year that’s why The U.S. farmer
is a rich man. Even farmers' cash deposits, bond
holdings and other investments grew bigger, in
some categories as little as 0.6%, in others as much
as 6%. The biggest gain was in the farmer's biggest
asset: his land, whose value last year jumped $6.8
billion to a record $109.5 billion.
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