Agroaldea
Marcos Garces-Lizama.
Youth agricultural of Coag.
In this world where what rules or at least it seems- are dividends, interest rates (not referring to people, of course), and deficit targets, definitely, the excessive enrichment through the financial economy, It is thankful that someone highlight the importance of the real economy, productive and, above all, the first covering the basic needs of human beings: feeding.
The author of this article, Marcos Garces-Lizama, one of turolense 28 years that, besides practicing professionally in agriculture Bañón (Teruel) He holds a degree in Sociology and pursuing a degree in Political Science, It stresses the importance of agriculture and the need to renew with new wisdom, "The most beautiful office, worthy and noble in the world ", in this society increasingly away from the roots, based on a virtual economy whose swings severely harm people while swelling the coffers of the powerful.
My mother hardly knowing that spent entire afternoons riding a pedal tractor and trailer maneuvering, or I escaped me on the tractor with my grandfather, that it was dangerous and we were forbidden. Farmer will be blood and to top it off, Your father feeds!
Since I can remember, I am a farmer (or project), I love the countryside, rural ... what was not so clear was devote to it. Any society bombards you with your logic as you grow and this, so confused and dubious values, point you to the wonderful work you earn much, work right and do not mess. And agriculture is among those idylls never. It should be at to get dirty…
The reality is that we live in a society that promotes speculative financial economy to the productive, the real, which it produces "stuff" with a value beyond the economic. Agriculture can not be at the top whose main tenets are individualism and "get profit at the expense of whatever", definition of this voracious capitalism which has resulted in this scam called crisis.
For the system, farmers are flakiness that we live in something as volatile as the ground and the sky and we practice a trade last economically anything cool. It forgets that the world is inhabited by people, and they live because they eat vegetables, fruit, meat, no stocks and shares or shares. We produce something that is irreplaceable. But in addition is part of an error, put the beret to a sector that can be as technological and innovative as the most.
Agriculture appears maligned and underestimated in a society preoccupied with a thousand and one things nonsense and not as momentous as their food. My college classmates, as they saw me beret, They not believed to be a farmer, but the more I explained to them more interested them, and they themselves acknowledged they had never worried about the origin of the food they ate ... What a world we live? When I teach Price Index Origin-Destination with variations 300%, 700% and more ... they throw up their hands to the head.
Agriculture is the most beautiful office, worthy and noble in the world and, perhaps, of the toughest and unjust. It represents a set of values that society has lost and we keep, or so it should be. Telefónica, Santander, Mapfre ... they are the values of today, Instead effort, dedication, implication, commitment, AGRICULTURE collaboration ..., They are in danger of extinction.
Agriculture is knowledge, It is to know a little of everything, of biology, of mathematics, geology, meteorology, of chemistry, micro and macro economy, and also what no one teaches you ... have an infinite patience. If not the oldest profession in the world, almost. It is a philosophy of life in which the weather forces you to keep your feet on the ground.
So when I finished the race, sociology and political science, I wanted to be clear what. In college I learned to appreciate agriculture in a different way, to have a broader view. I learned a thousand and one things that have nothing and everything to do with it, to analyze the context in which it develops and, above all, I discovered that agriculture should be social because that is its essence.
There I realized how wrong the system in which we live, which puts the tail a key strategic sector, a system that relegates the productive economy to the suburbs. But I also realized that we are the farmers who have fallen into the trap, and that we settle into our pockets individually we squeeze the PAC insulting imposed on us without the strength and imagination to change them. I hate to see farmers fighting only for his pocket as what is at stake is the future and the dignity of the sector. less pocket, more ideas and more commitment.
And I took responsibility. It is proud to be a farmer; and as farmers have an obligation to defend the sector, be consistent with our profession. Young people are responsible for putting about agriculture, to regenerate. Generational change can not remain only on farms as a datum, we must look to the past to build the future, recover the essence, the spirit and values to suit the times. Young people have the task of building a social agriculture, in line with the environment, sustainable, respectful, committed and cooperative. We should make society and institutions know, value, respected and involved in the sector.
People do not know or know what the sector and this ignorance is as harmful as dangerous. Agriculture is culture, as the word indicates, and this society needs to learn from it as we need to integrate better this. It can not be that socialization away from such a vital job to a guy like me, I was born farmer.