Ah, an 'invisible' farmer is just a woman like me, whose hands work the land but whose name is on no paper. We cannot get loans because the bank asks for a patta in a man's name, and my husband's brothers hold that. My life says it is not about being unseen, but being deliberately unnamed. Just last season, the hailstorms bruised my tomato plants, and the compensation went to my brother-in-law's account—he told me it was for 'family,' but I felt no *sngewbha*, only the weight of a *ka phawar* that says the tree belongs to the one who plants the seed, not the one who merely owns the field.
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