Before
now, our lives as farmers have been made miserable by those we thought will
give us convenience and guarantee to succeed. But they made us pass through laborious
process to benefit, just a bundle of cassava cuttings.
This
unprecedented stress has caused the lives of many farmers to be shortened. We,
the Edo Farmers are treated just like slaves, as we are given just a measure of
food as will keep the breath in our bodies. Those of us who are capable to work
are forced to work to the last atom of our strength, when it’s clear that they
are satisfy with our services, they throw us away just like snail shell.
Imagine
the situation in of farmers in some community in the outskirt of the state;
where indigenous farmers cash crops are destroyed by a total stranger in the
name of a private investor, without pity or concern for the farmers that has
spent all their lives pampering the crops so destroyed. These farmers, seeing
the growth of the said crops, were awaiting when they will start to enjoy the
fruit of their labour. Only for that thought to be cut short by a brutal non indigenous
investors. As you are reading this information, the farmers don’t even have
land to farm on presently even in their own community. All their farmlands have
been taken away from them.
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The
most unfortunate situation the farmers are facing is that no were in the state
has been dedicated for farming purpose why they are contemplating a large
grazing land for herdsmen. Could you imagine sharing my father’s inheritance
first to my father’s slave only to leave a remnant to us, the legitimate
children. If a specific area has not been earmark for special farming, will it
ever augur well for anyone who want to first share our land to stranger before
asking us if we also need? This is beating a drum of war! Because our farmers are
not yet assured that come rain or sun, they have farmlands that no
one/authority will take away from them.
Because
of this development, no farmers in this state actually knows the meaning of happiness
or leisure, no farmers is free, since they are never allowed to take part in
the decision making that will enhance their success. The life of all farmers in
this state is full of misery and slavery that is the plain truth.