No, not nearly enough. This sort of questions arouses my passion because it's my field, the course I took in school.

Farmers are the lifeblood of the nation, without them the populace would starve to death.

The very first job that ever existed was farming. Farming before engineering or medicine. It however surprising that those who have engage in the art are not recognised.

There's an aura, a stigma that seems to go with farming that makes many people think that farming is meant for peasants alone. This is a fallacy, in every way you can imagine it. It beats me to see that people don't realize how much much farming and farmers mean to our perpetuity and continuous existence.

I remember some month back when I happened to be teaching agriculture. I asked my students what they'd like to become. These were students in junior classes. I gave them choices and a lot of them wanted to become doctors, engineers and pharmacists. It was shocking to know that many of them didn't consider agriculture as a good field. I mean practically no one raised a hand when I mentioned farmer. Thus goes to show that people don't know what the value of the agricultural sector to our existence. The worst thing was that a lot of these teenagers had parents who were predominantly farmers and yet, they denied their occupation, denied that which feeds them.

So, yes, I think farmers don't get nearly enough recognition, respect for what they do.