[20/01/2023 15:47] Pankaj Kumar: My father, the Farmer, Entrepreneur, head of the joint family, a problem solver for everyone....
Now a days there are many courses online and offline, MBAs etc. Where they teach abt various branches of Management and how to do things etc...
I have grown up in a village in the then Western Part of the undivided Uttar Pradesh watching my father playing all the above roles with many more additional responsibilities...Being the eldermost Son of my grandfather, the responsibility of a joint family of 3 younger brothers and 02 sisters too came to his duties....
[20/01, 15:49] Pankaj Kumar: At very early age he started looking after his duties as the grandfather was very fond of starting some new venture one after the another pinning his hope on his eldermost son who had to be recalled in between from his LLB course....
[20/01, 15:55] Pankaj Kumar: Having born in 1933, father got married in 1957 and I guess he started to take the family responsibilities from the age of 20-22 yrs only....Grandfather was the first entrepreneur in the family of simple farmers who knew only tilling the land with their ploughs...
Grandfather decided to install the first ever Ata Chakki in the village, later the Rice machine too was added...After that grandfather earmarked 50 Bighas of land for Mango and Leechi Bagh....
After this Grandfather went ahead to install first ever Sugar Cane Crusher in the village and also bought the famous Russian made Field Marshal Tractor for our 150 bighas of land which was being ploughed with the Oxen and ploughs only
[20/01, 15:55] Pankaj Kumar: There started the machenisation of farming with few more machines were added to the family kitty...
[20/01, 15:57] Pankaj Kumar: Now grandfather was also a trained Homeopath and he was also fond of travelling to relatives and used to be away from home for longer durations so the father has to step in to look after everything which was started by the grandfather...
[20/01, 15:58] Pankaj Kumar: By then he was also started getting help from 02 of his younger brothers full time and 01 part time as one of my uncles got the govt job of a Gram Vikas Adhikari and was posted away from home...
[20/01, 16:01] Pankaj Kumar: My father used to manage all the businesses apart from the farming...At times there used to be around 35 workers engaged in all these diff activities, who were paid and fed by the family. I always found father busy doing one or the other task yet never found him tired or angry or annoyed. He used to be ready for every responsibility which used to come to him being the Head of the family of around 30 to 35 members...
