You all get the food from the grocery store near you not bothering where they came from who make it possible to reach you and most importantly who cultivate them. We know it's none of your business but is our we the "FARMERS" Because if we don't you will not get food on your plate, but what do we get, the smallest fraction of the amount you paid at your grocery store. 

We spend at least 6-8 hour for a whole year without having a holiday off and zero comfort and what do we actually get climate problem, water scarcity, labor scarcity, huge machine pricing, costly seed, and fertilizers, and after all that not even the half price of the MSP set by the government. Only 30-50% of farmers get to sell their crops at MSP. You know the process of growing a crop, everyone has at least grown a plant. The drill is different when it comes to growing crops on a larger scale and in huge quantities. 

. I will tell you how do you and I get your plate of rice which you use to create a variety of dishes. It starts with land preparation, Before rice can be planted, the soil should be in the best physical condition for crop growth and the soil surface is level. Land preparation involves plowing and harrowing to ‘till’ or dig-up, mix and level the soil.

Tillage allows the seeds to be planted at the right depth, and also helps with weed control. Farmers can till the land themselves using hoes and other equipment or they can be assisted by draft animals, such as buffalo, or tractors, and other machinery.

Next, the land is leveled to reduce the amount of water wasted by uneven pockets of too-deep water or exposed soil. Effective land leveling allows the seedlings to become established more easily, reduces the amount of effort required to manage the crop, and increases both grain quality and yields. 

Next, the most important step comes to seed and fertilizers selection with the best quality of the seed to be very overpriced we take a medium to a high quality to give high yield crops and also in budget. FertilizersTransplanting is the most popular plant establishment technique across Asia. Pre- germinated seedlings are transferred from a seedbed to the wet field. It requires less seed and is an effective method to control weeds, but requires more labor. Seedlings may be transplanted by either machine or hand.

Direct seeding involves broadcasting dry seed or pre-germinated seeds and seedlings by hand or planting them by machine. In rainfed and deepwater ecosystems, the dry seed is manually broadcast onto the soil surface and then incorporated either by plowing or by harrowing while the soil is still dry. In irrigated areas, the seed is normally pre- germinated prior to broadcasting. In my place normally the seed is sprinkled on small land and when the seed turns into plants the land is filled with water so the soil becomes wet and is easy to plug out plants from them. then manually laborers plug out the small plants and collect them. this collection of plants are manually then plated in the land again in the group of 4-5 plants at an equal distance so that they use the nutrients of soil equally and become fruit at the same time.

Then fertilizers like DAP, POTASH, UREA, PESTICIDES, are spread so that the rice gets enough quantity of proteins and minerals and no unwanted plant and grass grow with the rice because it can share the proteins and decrease the quality of rice. After 3-4 months, the seed starts ripening and the seed has finally turn into fruits and is ready to cut.

After ripening of rice, the most important step off cutting the grown crops is done .there are many ways to cut the final crops like manually or using rice cutting machine or using combine machines. In manual cutting of crops, a group of laborers is hired to cut the crops using a curved saw in the right hand and a bundle of rice plant in the left hand which they cut using the saw in this process We get rice and also the long stem of the rice plant which is further be processed in the machine into smaller parts which are then used to feed the cow. In this process the cost of cutting the crops increases since money is distributed between laborers and farm owners and increases the cutting cost of farmers who don't need husk from the rice plant.

The other process involved to cut the rice crop is by cutting it using the cutting machine it cuts the rice plant and ties it and leaves it in the farming land, It is then left to be dried for some time so that the plant gets dried. When the plant is dried it is then passed through a thresher machine which separates the rice seed from the plant. The thresher not only separates the plant from the seeds it also separates the stem of the plant which is then passed through another cutting machine which cuts into smaller parts which are then used to feed the cow and also some of the farmers just burn it and use it as a fertilizer and mix it in the ground. This process is more economical and cheaper to the farmers so this is used very often by the farmers in my area it also saves the time of the farmers to get the land again ready for the next cropping season.

The other process involved to cut rice crop is by cutting it using the combined machine, the combined machine uses the functions of the cutting machine and the thresher at the same time. the giant spin wheel in the front of the combined machine cuts the crop and passes it to the thresher which is fitted in the combined machine. The machine separates the rice seed and also the stem of the rice plant and leaves it from the back of the machine which is left on the land itself farmer has to hire labor to collect all the leftover stems which are spread on the whole land that's why the former who lead the rice temp for their cow they don't use this combined machine. In my village there is only one combined machine which has the storing capacity of approx 700 kgs so after the compartment it is filled by 700 kg of rice seed it is then emptied and it then again goes to cut other crops after that. This combined machine is more economical and cheaper than both earlier process that's why the farmers who don't need rice stem they use this combined machine and burn the rice stand in the field.

After the cutting and separating of rice seed from the rice plant, it is left to dry for around 10 to 15 days in the sunlight so that the seed does not contain too much moisture and gets damaged when stored. After the rice seed is fully dried it is then packed in a jute sack which is directly sold to the nearby local shops or government authorized pax sellers or nearby dealer. The current government MSP for buying the rice is 1898 but my village pax dealers are not buying the rice so we have to sell the rice to the local dealers which does not give so much value I sold my rice seed for 900 rupees per 100kg which is 9 rupees per kg it is nothing compared to the amount of effort and hard work and time we spend in growing these rice crops which is then processed between the third parties which then sell it to consumers at 5 times or even 9 times the rate at which they give to the farmers.
The local dealer then sells the rice seed to the big corporates or government which then sends it to the rice mills to further remove the upper shell of the rice seed and then the white rice comes from the Seed.