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कोटी पोटाची भरनी.

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वर पसरली माती
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गहिवरलं शेत जसं
अंगावरती शहारं

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एका एका कोंबांतून
प्रगटली दोन पानं
जसे हात ते जोडून

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दंग देवाच्या भजनी
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होऊ दे रे आबादनी

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रोप झाली आता मोठी
आला पिकाला बहर
झाली शेतामध्ये दाटी

कशी वाऱ्यानं डोलती
दाणे आले गाडी गाडी
देव अजब गारुडी
देव अजब गारुडी

brain drain

If educated youth choose to live in villages and launch the new agriculture movement  based on the integrated application of science and social wisdom ,our untapped demographic dividend will become our greatest strength....

             During his recent visit,President Barak Obama pointed out that India is fortunate to have a youthful population with over half of the total population of 1.2 billion being under the age of 30.Out of the 600 million young persons, over 60% live in villages. Most of them are educated .Gandhiji considered the migration of educated youth from villages to towns and cities as the most serious form of brain drain affecting adversely rural India's development. He therefore stressed that we should take steps to end the divorce between intellect and labour in rural professions.The national commission on Farmers stressed the need for attracting and retaining educated youth in farming.
            

Farmer Honesty

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry

Agriculture, considered the backbone of Indian Economy, is in urgent need for improvement. To ensure high yields, government should allow private sector to enter and educate farmers about cooperative societies and better irrigation methods.