DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: PUNE, Maharashtra , Mar 21 (IPS) - An intensifying agrarian crisis claimed the life of at least one cotton farmer every day last year in Maharashtra, western India. But government subsidies were monopolised by the states ...
DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: PUNE, Maharashtra, Mar 21 (IPS) - On Mar. 4, barely four days after Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram announced a mammoth loan waiver for farmers, 55-year-old Dattu Chaudhary, who owned 3 hectares (ha) of land ...
DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: DORLI, Maharashtra, , Mar 21 (IPS) - It is hard to find smiling farmers in Dorli, rural Vidarbha, a cotton growing belt in western Indias Maharashtra state. The rain-fed fields are dry. Farming has become unprofitable, ...
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