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The Invisible Heroes of the Harvest: Honouring the Lives and Work of Farmers

Nomi
2 min readOct 17, 2024

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Farmers Life 🧬

Farmers work and sweat for our food. Long hours, skill and toil guarantee safe, healthy food; yet, hardly anyone listens to their stories.

The Farmer’s Life

1. Morning Man: The farmer wakes up before dawns break. Urgent chores and tasks are always in wait.
2. Seasonal cycles: Tilling, harvest time, cultivating through nature's cycle.
3. Human Labor: Long hours of toil labor by hands and sweating, long hours under extreme climatic conditions.
4. Entrepreneurial Skills: Financial management, market and logistics to survive and sustain their activities.

Farmer's Problems

1. Climatic Changes: Weather pattern changes, draught, extreme climatic conditions.
2. Market Fluctuations: Fluctuations in prices, competition and tastes.
3. Scarce Resources: Credit, Technology and Training.
4. Physical and Mental Health: Isolation, stress, and workplace hazards.

Benefits of Agriculture

1. Intimacy with nature: Crops growing, then brought in harvests, and life.
2. Building

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