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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Sadhguru Recounts His Days As A Farmer | Kisan Day Special

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Sadhguru Official

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4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Sadhguru recounts one of his experiences as a farmer, and then goes on to detail the various issues that ail farmers in India today. #KisanDay Action Now to Save Cauvery! Rs.42 per Tree! Support Farmers To Plant 242 Crore Trees At http://isha.co/cauvery-calling-yt #CauveryCalling Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org  Sadhguru App (Download): http://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: http://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So in another 25 years, who is going to grow food in this land?

0:04.0

Because growing the crop is not a joke.

0:07.0

If we handle this land right, we can provide food for the entire world.

0:13.0

It's possible to do that. If you do this, farmers will be rich and well to do.

0:18.0

All this debt that is there in the banks will not happen.

0:30.0

One of the greatest achievements in this country.

0:39.0

We have built businesses, we have built industries, we are going to the marsh, all this is wonderful.

0:44.0

But the greatest achievements in this country is our poor illiterate farmer

0:50.0

with little infrastructure, almost no technology.

0:54.0

Just with traditional knowledge, he is able to produce food for one billion people.

0:59.0

So this is the greatest achievement. But right now we are pushing the farmer to a place

1:04.0

where you know thousands of them are committing suicide.

1:08.0

If you want you to go about and ask how many of the farmers want their children to go into farming?

1:17.0

You will see it's less than 15 percent.

1:20.0

So in another 25 years, who is going to grow food in this land?

1:24.0

Because growing a crop is not a joke.

1:27.0

Tomorrow morning you can't go to the field and grow a crop.

1:30.0

There is a traditional knowledge which is so valuable because of a long history of agriculture in this country.

1:37.0

It is in the DNA of the farmer that he knows how to take a crop out of soil.

1:44.0

At one time I used to farm.

1:47.0

First time I went out farming, I just finished my graduation and I want to do farming as an entrepreneur.

1:53.0

And I went to farm. I bought these very expensive seeds.

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