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Banks on hooves |
| This term is coined to express the economic importance of cattle wealth to mankind. Livestock includes mainly cattle, pigs, poultry and fishery but at present I deal with cattle farming. In India agriculture provides work and livelihood for majority of people who generally live in villages. Corporations are new entrants in village economy. Cattle rearing was till date a farmer's business next only to agriculture since farming depended on pair of bullocks and milk was the main nutrition. Corporations with new advances in agriculture and animal husbandry invest more money than farmers can do and hence a farmer feels free to give farms to corporations. Although corporations harvest more yields and incidentally more profits. The farmer is certainly a loser of his farm which provided him and his family food, and cattle his manure and means to plough and transport for his produce. Corporations go to upset village economy in that farmer is thrown out of work and he is tempted to migrate. Corporations have begun to industrialize the process in livestock. They are successful more in piggery, poultry and fishery while only commercial few breeds of cattle are developed at the cost of local breeds. Local breeds possess the ability to adapt to their environment and even to continue environment sustainability. Unless the farmers owning farms continue in their farming, the farmers' economy is bound to suffer. The Govt should come out liberally to help in all respects so that farmers continue to harvest higher yields in line with MNCs. Politicians appear to be at this task. Thus banks on hooves is a title appropriate since bullocks are very important in the present higher prices of fossil fuels.
SS Chitwadgi, Bhopal
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