Pankaj's Short Stories

The Crop 🌿

A person named Saresh was a farmer. He was married to a girl named Muni. They had two children. Saresh would wake up every morning, wash his hands and face, eat and then leave to work in the fields. The livelihood of his family depended on farming. Saresh would return home by evening. He belonged to a poor family whose main occupation was farming. He had neither a tractor nor a cow or bull. He only had a wooden plough with which he ploughed the fields. One day Saresh woke up in the morning and went to the field. When he looked in the field, the crop was flourishing. The paddy present in the field had ripened. Looking at the crop present in the field, it seemed that there was a golden colour. The farmer rushed to his home. He told everything to his wife. Saresh and Muni reached the field with harvesting tools. Both of them started harvesting the crop. It was evening. All the crop had been harvested. Both of them filled the crop in sacks and took it home. The next day they started threshing the crop. After a few hours, the paddy was separated from the crop. He took a machine on rent. He took out rice from the paddy with the machine and returned the machine. He filled the rice in sacks. Next day, the farmer went to sell the sacks of rice to a government official. The government official told the farmer that I can give you only fifty rupees. Saresh knew that he was trying to cheat me. The value of so much rice was much more than fifty rupees. When Saresh protested, the official slapped him twice. Saresh stood there sadly. He started shedding tears. A person made a video of this scene and uploaded it on social media. Slowly, this scene spread all over the country. Slowly, all the farmers started protesting. All the farmers of the country started supporting Saresh. All the farmers of the country stopped farming and participated in the movement. Some days passed. The government ration stock started getting exhausted slowly. The economic activity of the country started deteriorating. The price of food items of the country kept increasing day by day. People were unable to buy it. The Prime Minister of the country decided to meet Saresh. The Prime Minister came to Saresh. Saresh told the entire matter to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister called that officer here and asked him to apologize. The officer apologized to Ramesh with folded hands. The Prime Minister told his officers- this misbehaving officer should be removed from his post. After that there was an echo of applause there. The Prime Minister sat in his car and left from there. The movement ended. Saresh sold his rice to the government at a reasonable price. Time passed. Slowly the government ration stores started filling up. Economic activities started becoming normal and the prices of food items started becoming normal.