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  • From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Punjab Drought Problem/Suicides.
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:48:31 -0700

At 5/20/2005, you wrote:
Anyone need any additional encouragement to get their land paid for and then not borrow against it?

> Village after village in Punjab is up for sale. Rural indebtedness has
> reached such alarming proportions that entire communities are being forced to 'distress-sell' their lands. .

Remember this is the soul of the Green Revolution. Farmers were encouraged to increase yields by buying new hybrid seeds. To achieve those yields the farmer also had to buy fertilizers and insecticides. New irrigation systems had to be built to provided the water needed by super seeds. State controlled prices of the farm output competed against free market prices for those inputs and the difference was made up by borrowing.

Don Bowen Awl Knotted Up

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