India, April 19 -- You may have heard the quote 'Once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.' After all, if it weren't for the hard work of farmers, we wouldn't have all the tasty and diverse food we eat every single day. We owe our 'food security'-the assurance of enough healthy food for all of us in the present and future years-to farmers. What would happen if farmers were to disappear from our lives?

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