Protests and demonstration of farmers across the country at one time or another during every crop season has come to be a common feature. The farmers had not been receiving fertiliser for the last two weeks. Such public assembly, which is prohibited by the prevailing emergency rules, bears greater significance because it only points to their utter desperation. Despite repeated assurances from the military-controlled interim government of renewed focus on agriculture and announcements that it would boost food production, fertiliser distribution and management remains riddled with loopholes and glitches that would have been expected to have been smoothened under a regimented and disciplinarian regime. Although agriculture has always been among the most significant drivers of the economy, it is consistently ignored compared to the efforts successive governments have placed in other sectors. The agriculture sector, besides producing food-grains that feed the entire nation, contributes over a fifth of the gross domestic product and employs over half the labour force in the country. This year has become especially important as far as agriculture is concerned due to the huge agricultural losses during the floods and the cyclone on the one hand and the galloping inflation of food essentials, general unemployment and the threat of a food shortfall on the other. The incumbents also plan to raise the prices of diesel, another key input for agricultural irrigation, and might reconsider subsidising fertiliser to the extent that it enjoys currently. Although it was mentioned that diesel price would remain as it is during the current season, raising it subsequently would still have the same effect in the next crop season. Withdrawal of subsidies or even decreasing subsidies in agricultural inputs would eventually cause food prices to increase, which would only add to the already unbearably high food prices. As we have suggested before, it would be quite irresponsible of the incumbents to initiate measures that would fuel further inflation without ensuring first that the masses have some means of coping with the rising prices, especially that of food. Agriculture, especially those becoming increasingly mechanised and dependent on chemical inputs, survive on state subsidies in one form or another across the world. It is deemed necessary to subsidise and protect agriculture not just because it is an important economic sector but also because it is part of the culture and heritage of peoples around the world.