(From the Hindu)
YERCAUD: Coffee planters of Shevaroys Hills are facing problems this year.
The advanced ‘blossom showers’ have withered their hopes of having a bountiful yield, which, according to their conservative estimate, will be of a staggering loss of 40 per cent.
(The Shevaroys Hills are in Tamil Nadu, which neighbors Kerala. For a great [...]
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Trouble brews for coffee planters
Posted in News clippings, Political Economy, tagged Climate, Books on 23 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A depressing graph
Posted in Political Economy, Sustainable agriculture, tagged Farmer suicides on 14 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rate of suicides = the number of suicides per one lakh (100,000) population. Kerala is #3. In 2006, about 9,000 people committed suicide in Kerala.
Source: National Crime Records Bureau of India, 2006
