'Investments on agriculture are the best weapons to eradicate poverty and hunger in a country because agriculture has made billions of lives perfect. This is why we are suffering from the crisis of agriculture because our authorities do not invest more on agriculture.' says the CEO of Microsoft Company, America.

province has multiple grievances one of which is ignoring the agriculture sector.

There are manifold causes of degrading agriculture_ specifically in Balochistan. Water scarcity is one such issue which is troubling the farmers to maintain the high level of agriculture.

Scarcity of water has become a major problem. Every year, due to scarcity of water, a lot of crops and fields get destroyed. It gets birth with less degree of rain. However, in the current season, there have been a lot of rains in the province. Sadly, Balochistan receives a short amount of funds. Approximately, 81 per cent of the farmers in Balochistan complain of no proper facilities to availing water.

All our government needs to do is to create resources by providing machines to the farmers so that they can easily approach the underground water.

One other issue is that the government does not provide the farmers with quality seeds to cultivate. Resultantly, rural farmers, largely thanks to lack of awareness, use old and uncertified seeds for growing crops resulting in approximately 40pc germination failure. This inflicts massive losses on both individual farmers and also the provincial economy.

Thus, farmers are unable to invest in agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and use of tractors for their fields.

The farmers are an annoying segment of society because they are always stuck in the epidemic of problems. The introductory plethora of problems and impediments are halting progress of the agriculture sector. There is a dire need of building small and big dams in order to store water.

Hence, Balochistan covers a huge and large amount of land in Pakistan but still most of the land remains uncultivated. This is just because an abnormal change in weather also further worsened the situation. In the southern areas of Balochistan like Jaffarabad, Naseerabad and Sibi, there is unforeseen rain when the crops are ready for harvest.

Because most of the uneducated sector of Balochistan are uneducated, they find agriculture a useful source of income. But if agriculture is ignored, it creates difficulties and hurdles for them to run and end up with getting involved in social crimes.

The Balochistan government needs to think of it and bring forward remedies to help the growth of agriculture in the province. If in times of need the government does not stand with its people, they are never going to rely on them back.

The writer is a student at Bolan School Turbat.

Success Habits: Proven Principles for Greater Wealth, Health, and Happiness

By Asif Murad Umrani

Books play a pivotal role in human's life. They become friends when you seek comfort, they become assistants when your heart needs firmness and mind-space. They too can become the world when you are lost inside. The puzzle tackles the mind of how do we surrender in the love of books. Imperatively, this is because of the writers who, from years, are developing their enchanted wisdom on the way to the nurturing souls of human beings.

This time once again I came up with a pleasant book of my favorite author, Napoleon Hill. It goes 'Success Habits: proven principles for Greater Wealth, Health and Happiness'.

This book is transcripted from a series of Radio talks in Paris in the 1950s. This is much awe_inspiring like the author's previous best selling book 'Think and Grow Rich'.

The first thing the writer comprehends is about definiteness of purpose. It is the very first step in resolving all the lurch paths and obstacles on the way for a better life. It demands only perfection_ the perfection of your time, relaxation, work and accurate strategy.

Well, for escaping out from the blunders and ever grieving melancholy, it requires accurate plans and creative thinking. The terms necessitate no degree or special course; it solely possesses how you judge yourself and boost up the meticulous capabilities.

Interestingly, this treasure is just a stone's throw between mastermind and the intricate heart. Ask yourself a thousand times to magnify your mentality that if something is wrong then what is its solution; if something is right then how is that right?

When you finally get satisfied by the ever-longing life thesis, it confers the testimony of your 'Win'.

No matter what people utter on and off scenes and where the situations will take you to tackle, as long as you believe in yourself and the persistence on the target maintains, your burning desire will not get cold.

Moving onward, Applied Faith is something self-nourishment and proves to be the key to symbolic states of mind. Faith owns the weird but finest role in controlling the decentralized mind. It is Indeed a sheer full stop to the fiasco of mind and portraits the success that whatever the mind conceives it can probably achieve.

The inventor of Light bulb, sir Thomas A. Edison, failed thousand times on the project of Light bulb and now how better come his eye-catching success the whole world appreciates. This is how he applied faith over that.

There are some major causes of failure. Some of them are as follows:

1st, Drifting:

The quick solution to this problem is to set a goal, make up an arranged time table and keep putting efforts till the target is achieved.

2nd, Meddlesome curiosity:

You have a life to live and make all the most of it. Do not spoil the beautiful journey by interfering in other's affairs. Know how to lead something best for you not seeking what is bad in people. The most inspiring impression overall is to acknowledge and learn to appreciate someone.

3rd, Lack of self discipline, excess eating, sex etc:

It is extremely hard to stop oneself for something that appearingly amuses and overwhelms the emerging desires but in reality, the same disgusting desires hit both physically and mentally with everlasting blemishes. We must take care of each and everything that escalates the bad into the worst.

Overall, it was a good read. The book gives us food for thoughts to live our life more happily with the positive approach of everything and everyone. Do have a read and get to know different tactics of living your life.

The writer is a Karachi-based freelancer. He has a keen interest in writing on socio-political issues and a major area of human rights and ethics.

Child marriages; violation of human rights in Balochistan

By Durdana Shakeel

Child marriage has become a common practice in the rural areas of Balochistan. The ratio is increasing day by day. It has eventually got merged as a custom for most of the areas, whereas, some others have other reasons to get their young daughters married. It is, however, a clear violation of human rights.

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 22.82 per cent children are deprived of schooling out of which 32 per cent are the victims of child marriages. As per local estimates, they were compelled to leave their studies, either by their parents or the opposite sides.

However, it is shocking to know that small children_ approximately 10 to 12 ages_ are forced to marry old men. How come a child of 10 to 12 years manages with an old man of more than 40 years? It is a serious violation of Human Rights but who cares!

Research indicates that marrying a child at an early age when physically and mentally immature is very detrimental and unbearabe. Because these children never really experience what is to be a child and are assumed to hold out the duties of a wife at the age when they should have toys in their hands.

Marrying children at this age not only wipes out their minds, but also crashes their dreams. Many of them wish to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, professors etc, but they can only become professionals if they get education. Sadly, they are kept very far from education.

According to an estimate, approximately half of Baloch children are being married before 18, which is very disheartening. As children how can they bear such circumstances?

The root causes behind the tradition of spreading the ratio of child marriages are illiteracy, poverty and unemployment which compel the poor parents to sell their innocent daughters to very older men for the sake of money and removing their hunger.

There is no doubt that it is ruining their feelings and emotions, but all they can do is to wed them away. Even, most other parents get them married to older people for they fear their daughters must not go unmarried.

Therefore, to alleviate the given problem, the society should stand against this terrible violation of human rights and protect the innocent children from life exercuciation. Secondly, education must be provided to the children which can remove the tensions of their parents to go unmarried. Because when daughters are self-dependent they worry not of marrying, but the men.

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