00:00Ambadas Pawar never wanted to become a symbol of farmer distress.
00:04He only wanted to farm his 2.5 acres of land in Hadooti village in Lathur district of Maharashtra.
00:11Land that has seen more drought than rain, more heartbreak than harvest.
00:16Ambadas is around 70 years old, but he doesn't have the luxury to rest.
00:22Every morning, he ties a rope around his shoulders, leans forward and pulls a wooden plough through the hard dry soil.
00:30His wife Muktabai, who is as tired and old as him, walks behind guiding the plough.
00:37This is not a scene from history, this is happening now in Maharashtra in 2025.
00:42Why does he do this?
00:44Because renting a tractor costs Rs. 2500 a day.
00:48Because they don't have the money to hire bullocks.
00:51Because crop after crop has failed either due to drought or unseasonal rain.
00:56Because loans worth Rs. 60,000 sit heavy on his chest and lenders won't wait.
01:03Because his son, working as a labourer in Pune, can barely feed himself, let alone send money home.
01:10Because his daughter is married elsewhere and they still need to care for their daughter-in-law and grandchildren.
01:16Because hunger does not leave choices.
01:19Ambadas says life hasn't given us a choice.
01:21So despite trembling arms and weak legs, he pulls the plough.
01:26So that at least something grows on his land.
01:29So that his family survives.
01:31They have been doing this for 7-8 years.
01:34Every year, hoping rains will be kind.
01:37Every year, hoping the government will notice them.
01:40Not just in slogans, but in action.
01:42A video of Ambadas pulling the plough has now gone viral.
01:46People are outraged.
01:47The agriculture minister has finally reached out promising help.
01:51But will that help reach him in time?
01:54Or will it get stuck in paperwork like many promises before?
01:57Because the agriculture minister is now gone viral.
02:00On the right hand, there has no way it rains are.
02:03The forest is still both because of the river is still under the rain.
02:05In this forest, there are no reason to go through it.
02:06The forest, we have now been waiting for water.
02:11The forest is still under the rain.
02:12The forest, the forest, the forest, the forest, the forest, the forest, the forest, the forest, the forest, the forest, and the forest.
02:15our team, our Krishyadikari, Uppakrishyadikari, Mandal Krishyadikari and I am the Krishyadikari
02:22went to the farm and saw that there was no need to be involved in the agriculture department.
02:40We make sure that there are a few applications, we have a lot of help, we have to be involved in the local government.
02:49We have to be involved in the local government government, and we have to be involved in the local government government.
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03:30How is his family?
03:32His family has a little bit of economical condition.
03:37His family is poor.
03:39He is a young man who works in private companies.
03:44Due to that, both of them are a farmer.
03:49What is his name?
03:51He is a young man.
03:54How is his age?
03:55He is 25 years old.
03:57Ambadas and Muktabai's story is not just about one couple.
04:01It is about thousands of small farmers in Maratwada, in Vidarbha, in every drought-prone region of India.
04:08It is about rising input costs, about failing crops, about empty promises of loan waivers that don't reach the weakest.
04:16It is about a system that forces elderly farmers to become bullocks on their own fields.
04:22Ambadas is not asking for charity.
04:24He is asking for dignity.
04:26He is asking for a fair chance to live, to farm, to feed his family, without tying himself to a plough at 70.
04:34This is not a story you can scroll past and forget.
04:37Because if we can't protect the hands that feed us, what does it say about us as a society?
04:56Let's read.
04:57Let's read.
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