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to have sufficient corn by farming lands in order to satisfy the food demands of his family and the society in which he lives. Therefore an agriculturist is never blamed as injurer or killer, rather as a wellwisher of the society he is placed in the class of non-injurers.
But these days method of agriculture has been changed, which seems to be injurious and that may be known in the following way -
1) Land Exploitation - In Indian culture the earth or land is addressed as mother (Dharti Man). It is the faith of Indian people that Dharti Män ever gives and never takes. But the modern agriculturists have made it false. Due to their deep selfishness agriculturists manure their lands heavily, so that they may produce corn on large scale and they do so successfully. But after a year or two the lands are deserted due to the heavy manuring. They loose the producing power and the farmers fail to get any sort of corn or vegetable or fruit from their lands. In this way the saying - Dharti man never takes becomes meaningless when formers put manure in their lands and other saying "Dharti man ever gives" becomes useless when lands stop the origination of plants and trees. This may be considered as the exploitation of lands.
2) Life Damaging Crops - At present Indian people are being devoid of healthy diets because of the fast competition among farmers for producing more and more corn, than one another. They are using manures as much as they can, in their lands which is causing the corn, vegetables and fruits unnatural and unhealthy. They become poisonous. News papers often say about man and animals dying by eating respectively poisonous corn and plants. So the agriculture which aim is to give lives to human beings and animals is now destroying their lives.
3) Unfulfilment of Necessary Demands - The agriculture is now no more agriculture in true sense. It has become a business, because it has been deviated from its real aim. The real aim of agriculture is to provide healthy food to society. But these days farmers are thinking only of money making. They are trying to have the quantity not quality of corn. The surplus of manure used in the lands
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