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Article: Fight for food: with the mighty monsoon becoming increasingly wayward, Indian farmers are having to use every ounce of their ingenuity ...
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- New Internationalist
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- December 1, 1999
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FOR Chimanbhai Parmar, it has turned out to be an endless wait. More than two months after completing the sowing of the groundnut crop, and hoping for a second bumper harvest in a row, parched and barren fields stare at him. For kilometres in every direction, the absence of the monsoon rains has left behind a picture of devastation and misery.
The outlook this-year for Parmar, who has three children to support, is less than promising. With his fields failing to yield anything, he has to look for work elsewhere. Used as he and his fellow farmers are to hardship, the options are, nonetheless, desperate. They could end up as daily-wage labourers for the Public Works ...
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