A group of poor, uneducated Dalit women from Andhra Pradesh, is in mumbai and they have a piece of advice for Vidarbha’s farmers. They are asking vidarbha farmers to shift to food crops and stay strong, not just to survive, but also to live with dignity.
According to these dalit womans reason Vidarbha’s farmers are forced to commit suicide is because they have nothing with them. They worked on a crop not suiting their eco-system, they don’t have seeds of their own, even manure is procured from the market, labour is hired, their own lands are leased out.
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Small farmers all over india are going to have it very tough.. till we are able to reduce their dependency on rains and middle-men