I see almost every one playing FarmVille on Facebook at my office. I have seen them rejoicing over sowing, ploughing, buying seeds, buying cows, horses, constructing a house, what not, almost everything. People who do not even know anything about agriculture and farming also indulge in this game, a game which is addictive in the non-existent world in which all these players live in happily. They talk and discuss about the progress of farming with friends.

FarmVille is a real-time farm simulation game developed by Zynga, available as an application on the social networking website Facebook. The game allows members of Facebook to manage a virtual farm by planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops, trees, and livestock. Since its launch in June 2009, FarmVille has become the most popular game application on Facebook. And why not, when everybody is hooked to their computers even in offices to play the game?! They stay back till late night only because they are playing it.

These are the same people who look down upon agriculture and farmers in the real world, but cultivate a filed in the non-existent world. Neither do they understand the risk or pain undergone by farmers. These are the same people who do not even have respect for the labour of farmers or for the food grains they produce. I have seen many of these people wasting food in functions and showing disrespect to farmers. They don’t understand how many sleepless night a farmer spends to give them that food. His sweat of 8-10 months goes down the drain in few minutes. They don’t even see people who starve without food when they waste food on their plates.

Sometimes I wonder why don’t these people go and do some farming in real life? Why do they waste their time like this? Why do they fake things like this and forget reality?

I still remember how as small kids I and my brother used to eagerly wait to see the seeds becoming saplings when my mom used to sow vegetable seeds in our garden. The happiness which we used to derive when we used to see the tiny fresh leaves coming up, we would literally jump and celebrate. Now, the city life has taken toll of our gardening and we keep ourselves so busy that we hardly get time to either grow vegetables or enjoy gardening in the backyard of our home.

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