Exactly. If the Spanish & Potugese can earn millions of Dollars from ritualised barbarism called Bull Fighting & promote it all over the world in their colonies, then why can't a sport with rules like you have described be promoted & made commercial to earn money & help raise awareness about an agrarian society ??
But for that to happen the farmers themselves especially the young educated class of today, would have to stand up for their millennia old traditions & defend their way of life.
But I know that wouldn't happen as the education & social structure is designed in such a way that by the time a farmers son finishes education he is completely transformed in to a mirasi wanna be. The transformation is amazing, the only honour left is the caste title to preserve a vain sense of belonging..
I don't think it's a conspiracy by anyone apart from the farming classes themselves. Farmers ought to organise themselves & defend their way of life their traditions & customs. That's only possible when the young educated generation is willing to join their forefathers trade but that's not happening. Farming is a tough physical job without much financial return compared to other fields for an educated young man hence the refusal to be part of this tradition any more coupled with the growth in population & the resultant decrease in levels of farm holding.
Post the invasion of Afghanistan by NATO, stock values have increased tremendously. Farmers although happy at the increase in prices for their stock didn't realise the potential disaster awaiting them with the Seed ( Male ) stocks vanishing, the reliance on un Natural methods has not only increased but also become an accepted Norm. Until around 2001/02 the practice of raising a Male animal of the best possible qualities as public property was common, this was done to ensure the availability of seed. The animals was free to roam around where ever it wanted to. You wouldn't see a farmer chasing it out of ones crop or farm shed unless it created trouble. I myself witnessed my grandpa raising a couple of them until they were fully grown up but now there is nothing of that sort.
In our area Untill a few years ago every morning after 9 o clock you would see herdsmen taking large herds of animals out towards pastures for grazing & then see them come back at evening in long queues with dust rising around them but now that sight is extinct along with the last generation of farmers/herders. One of my regrets in life is not to have captured that sight on camera.
Farmers have great sense of care in their personality & a respect for nature.
My Grandpa ( mothers side ) had a fairly large herd of Buffaloes & many of the qualities that I loved about him were due to his agrarian life style. With his death a whole life style has gone extinct for his descendants as he was the only one involved with Farming since the rest of his brothers had all moved over to major cities first & later Foriegn countries to become professionals.
