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Chand and the Art of Planting Peas, Not Politics
Who knew the road to ending world hunger was paved with corny puns and tomatoes?
Chand was just a simple boy from a village where the most exciting thing to happen was when a goat wandered into the town square, but this was no ordinary story. No, dear reader, this is the tale of how a young man, who once thought “crop rotation” was a dance move, managed to feed the world with nothing more than ingenuity, charm, and an absurd amount of wordplay.
A Seedy Beginning
Chand grew up poor. Not “I-forgot-my-wallet-at-the-grocery-store” poor, but the kind where even looking at a loaf of bread felt like a luxury. His village, like many others, struggled with food shortages. And no, they weren’t "fasting for fun," as some trendy folks might claim.
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Chand was determined to change his fate. Armed with nothing but a rusty shovel and optimism that could rival a sunflower’s love for the sun, he set out to revolutionize farming. While others saw dirt, Chand saw opportunity—and, more importantly, he saw puns.
The Corny Solution
One day, while knee-deep in mud, Chand had an epiphany: “What if I treat farming like politics? Plant the seeds, water…