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Hungry Decisions
Man's Story - Have Children - Save Grain - Burn Dung
With another child surviving birth during these next five years, you
now have five children at home. The warmth from the cow dung
has been especially helpful for your family, and you sleep warmly at
night. Your family is still hungry, however, and you are wishing
for a way to increase your harvest of grain.
A missionary is speaking in the village and indicates that there is a grain that will produce a greater yield per acre. It is available at the same cost as the seed you have been using and has been grown successfully in some other countries halfway around the world, but it has never been tried here. You would like to have a greater yield but are afraid that it might not work. If it were to fail, or produce less than your present yield, some of your family would surely starve to death. Even now you are on the edge of starvation.
You and your wife discuss whether you can risk trying the new grain.
If you decide to take the risk and plant the new grain, continue your story here.
If you decide to continue to plant the grain you have used in past years, continue your story here.