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Reviving the Aalemanes/Jaggery Units of Karnataka

September 13, 2015 Mandya district is in the news for a wrong reason: for being a hotbed of suicides in the current spate of farm suicides that Karnataka is experiencing. Most farmers who killed themselves are from Mandya, and many of the Mandya farm suicides are of sugarcane cultivators.

Farmer takes experts to task

September 13, 2015 Swathi V. Venkat Reddy literally changed the course of the debate at the meeting by addressing the experienced scientists on behalf of the farming community. Before he took the mike, a few speakers indirectly put the blame on farmers, with one academic saying that a family devoting complete attention to a small […]

Kerala goes organic

Nisha Ponthathil, Tehelka, Issue 38, Volume 12 | September 19, 2015 It seems vegetables have taken over from water in the ongoing rift between the south Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Having waged a relentless war over the sharing of water from the colonial Mullaperiyar dam for over three decades, the two states […]