Dreams don’t die. They just wait patiently for the right moment to become real…
My life’s goal has always been simple: give my children a better life than mine. Growing up, things were difficult. My family had 30 acres of land, but poor rains often meant poor harvests. During my intermediate studies, things became especially hard. That year, rainfall was very low, and my father struggled alone in the […]
Twenty-five years after I first began farming, I was back to learning again…
I never finished school. I was in eighth standard when I stopped studying and began working with my father in our fields. At the time, in our village, once boys learned to read and write, many of them joined their fathers on the land. Farming was what our families had done for generations, and we […]
If someone had told the young boy who left school, I would not have believed it.
Farming was very different when I first started, nearly sixty years ago. There were no machines, no equipment, and no shortcuts. Everything had to be done by hand. From preparing the land to sowing and harvesting, every step needed physical effort. Work never really ended. Even after sunset, there would still be something left to […]