In the name of the farmer

Small cultivators will gain little from the Rs 575,000-crore credit largesse; companies and big farmers benefit the most

Water starved village caught in Bt debate

In early March, Bhamb Raja village of Yavatmal district shot to fame, to use a stock media phrase, for being the first village in Maharashtra to draw up a gram sabha resolution opposing Bt cotton and demanding a ban on it. But four years ago, in a video film sponsored by biotech seed giant Monsanto, the village residents had spoken about Bt cotton in glowing terms, describing how it had changed lives and enabled people to build houses and buy gold.

Importing Disaster

India’s power elite is still seeking US solutions for our problems despite the havoc they  have wreaked upon American society

45 farmers commit suicide each day in India

For the past one decade, over 15,000 farmers in India have been taking their own lives each year. The recent report of the National Crime Records Bureau, Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India – 2010, says 15,964 farmers committed suicide in 2010. The report has drawn a baseline of 15,000 farmer suicides each year since 2001 

Smita Narula on Farmer Suicides

Did you know that every 30 minutes a farmer commits suicide in India? Listen to Smita Narula, faculty director at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, explain how this agrarian crisis affects the food on your dinner table.