Mervyn wrote:
"As a former farm labourer, I can assure all here that farm work is back
breaking
and the sure path to poverty. Real economic progress comes from
industrialisation.
Green/golden rice fields should remain only in the realms of nostalgics
and dreamers."
comment:
This is typical 'town boy' argument as Pinheiro has rightly labelled it in
one of his posts.
If it is cheap labour that was the problem then the machines have now been
put into operation in several areas. This should fix the problem if it is so
simple.
Mervyn acknowledges that farm work is back breaking but no sooner the
onions and potato prices increase, we have the 'town boys' screaming against
price rice urging government to put curbs on exports and so on. Farming is
back breaking for those who become habitual with living on other people's so
to say blood and sweat.
While we have a fast growing tribe of blood sucker 'town boys' who sell
their services and skills to the highest bidder in the inudstrialised
market, when it comes to agricultural produce this very 'town boy' wants
cheap labour and his vegetables and milk at a throw away price. For his own
rare product, he will keep a high price but when it comes to buying his food
the same parameters will never be acceptable to 'Town boys'. This is the
hypocrisy of an urbanised industrial economy and its exploitative mindsets.
-Soter
