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  • Tomato at 30 paise a Kg or why Indian farmers continue to commit suicides

    There is a heart wrenching sight across swathes of Karnataka. Farmers have been dumping tomato on highways, unable to sell them. Some of them have even allowed them to just ripen and rot in the fields rather than pay labour cost to even pluck that tangy vegetable. Karnataka government has fixed a minimum...
    Posted to Down South (Weblog) Posted by Venkatesha Babu on 07-15-2008
  • Killing of a farmer

    When the UPA government at the centre suddenly discovered the plight of the Indian farmer, unsurprisingly in an election year and announced that it would waive loans worth Rs 72,000 crore, I could hear the gasp of indignation amongst the middle class. Here we are, whose salary every month comes after...
    Posted to Down South (Weblog) Posted by Venkatesha Babu on 06-10-2008
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