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Article: WEST GUWAHATI BLACK PEPPER GROWERS IN DIRE STRAITS
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- September 3, 2007
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MIRZA, Sept 3 -- Numerous problems, including the steep fall in market price of black pepper, have dealt a severe blow to the large-scale cultivation of this spice in different localities under the West Guwahati constituency. In an interaction with this correspondent, a host of black pepper growers outlined their crisis that has inflicted further damage to their already battered economic condition.Boga Kalita, 56, of Manikpur, some 4 km from Rani, reportedly faced problems in continuing his farming on his two bigha land due to his economic backwardness. "I am economically too weak to afford the price of required ...