living the life of a farmer for a day..... an life changing experience.

I am coming from a city background where we get all the food items ready made on our table  so I personally had no experience of planting, sowing or cutting paddy. Through NERSWN I got an opportunity to experience the life of a farmer for day as we went to SUKHANBHAVNAI  to give a demo of "line sowing method'' to a farmer. We too started working in the field giving a demo of the planting with the help of a rope which had pointers at a specific distance of 8*10 so we started planting accordingly. It was my first time so I was hesitant when I started but as I started planting I got a hang of it and started doing it with a lot of joy and excitements. But after some time I started feeling the pinch as it was quite tired some job and I felt drained. I could not do it for more than an hour. But it made me aware of the hardship which a farmer goes through in his lifetime. I could not believe the hard work that they put in was out of our capacity.
I also felt that the farmers need our help and guidance to have a better livelihood opportunities and the NGO has been doing a lot of efforts to bring new ways of planting and new sources of income.

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