India
pti-Deepika S
New Delhi, Dec 05: As thousands of farmers dig their heels in at Delhi’s borders bracing chilly winter winds and preparing for a long fight to press for their demands, some rue that seeing their plight, their children no longer wish to get into agriculture.
Hasseb Ahmed, who has been on a sit-in against the Centre”s new farm laws here at the Ghazipur border since last Saturday, says he has two school going children, who are busy with their online classes back in his village in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh, want a better standard of living.
His elder son is in Class 12, while the younger is in class 9.”Neither of them wished to get into farming. They have their ambitions and want to land a good job. They say they don”t want to be farmers,” Ahmed said.
“With the price that we are offered for our crops, all we can afford to give them is food and basic…