Farmer

Farmer is the common profession in our country since our country is an agricultural country. Almost all of the population in village work as farmer. Here, the definition of farmer is those who work in ricefield, planting rice and vegetables. Rice is the main food in our country. That’s why rice is very important. Usually, we get rice and vegetables from market or shop. But, do we know those who plant rice and vegetables? I mean the farmer, rice and vegetables come from them before we buy it in a market. The answer is no. We don’t know anything about them and what they had done so we can eat rice and also vegetables. I think people ignore them. Whereas in fact they have worked very hard. This is not a popular profession, although they do a good turn. Imagine if there were no farmer, where would we get rice and vegetables?
Farmers have played an important role in our society. They have become the supplier for the rice demand. If farmers stopped plant rice, we would lack of rice so we had to buy rice from another country. If we imported rice from out side our country, the price would be very expensive. And only a few people can afford to buy rice. So, we should respect farmers. But, in reality, farmers were not treated in a good way. They did not get well-paid. When they sell rice to broker, sometimes they only receive little money while the broker receive much money. The broker buys the rice in low price, then they sell it again in higher price. It is unfair for the farmer because they only accept little money from their hard work.
Besides that, farmers only get money during the harvest season, while they have to fulfil their daily need every season. So, it would be difficult for them to fulfil their daily need if they only get little money. But that’s the reality, that’s why many villagers did not want to be a farmer and choose to leave village, and find a job in the city. If farmer got well-paid, many villagers would be a farmer so they would not move to the city. If they worked as a farmer, there would not be migration to the city and they would not work outside our country as “TKI” (: Tenaga Kerja Indonesia). Because when I read in newspaper usually the reason they become TKI because if they worked as a farmer, they would not get enough money to fulfil their daily need.
As I mention earlier, it is not a popular profession, I think because the pay is not worthy with what they have done. Their job needs a lot of energy because they work in ricefields not in an office. Farmers should have knowledge about plants, soil, and cultivating. It may sound easy but believe me it is not that easy. Farmer should be patient, hard worker, strong, healthy, diligent, and not give up easily.
This profession is very important in our society, they are our food provider. We should respect them by giving them well-paid. It is not like other profession is not important. They are important too, but farmer did not get a lot of attention, and people did not care about them. If they did not provide us with food, where we could get food? If we did not eat food, where we could get energy to do some work? It is like a life chain, where the farmers are the producer and we are the consumer. They are the source for us so we can produce too, what I mean we can do our job and produce something for our society. I mean, they provide us food, we eat it, then we get energy, after we have energy, we do our job, which is producing something for our society.
By giving them well-paid, it will attract many people to be a farmer. More farmers are better for us because it means that our food provider is more and more. We will not lack of food so we will not import food. And who knows our country could be a big producer of rice and vegetables, so we can export our food to other country. That will give us prosperity, hopefully.