The Maharashtra Drought: Telling the Untold Stories
My grandfather was a farmer in the state of Telangana, and the plight of Indian farmers is one that I have been interested in for many years. India’s agriculture sector has been in crisis for decades for many reasons, including the failure of crops due to climate change, and high indebtedness by farmers. More than 300,000 Indian farmers have killed themselves over the past 25 years, with a fifth of those deaths put down to crop failure because of climate change. But the individual stories get lost in the numbers.
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