While visiting the National Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore, on 27 June, 1927 Mahatma Gandhi wrote in the Visitors’ Book “Farmer” against the column titled “occupation”. He also used to emphasise that Gram Swaraj is the pathway to Poorna Swaraj. Lal Bahadur Shastri later gave the slogan “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan” to stress that Jawans and Kisans are the two pillars of our freedom. The extreme volatility of the price of food grains in the international market emphasizes that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns.