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DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Subsidies Cornered by Politically Powerful

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 ...

From JAIDEEP HARDIKAR, Inter Press Service,  21 Mar 2008

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Cotton Farmers in Distress - Relief Given Elsewhere

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 ...

From JAIDEEP HARDIKAR, Inter Press Service,  21 Mar 2008

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Two Villages, Two Very Different Stories

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, ...

From JAIDEEP HARDIKAR, Inter Press Service,  21 Mar 2008

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