Tech | January 03, 2012 | 7 comments

Cotton for my shroud: genocide of farmers

source: http://flashpointfilmfestival.blogspot.com/2011/11/cotton-for-my-shroud.html

JanforGore
"Since 1995, a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide - the largest wave of recorded suicides in human history. Most of them were cotton farmers from Vidarbha in Maharashtra. Once known for its fine cotton, it is now called the 'graveyard of farmers'. The escalating cost of inputs like seed, fertiliser and pesticide has made farming unsustainable. In the summer, the lack of resources or institutional credit for sowing the fields drives poor farmers to end their lives. In the winter, the depressed rates of cotton become the proverbial last straw. While the state and the media label these deaths as suicide, the cotton fields of Vidarbha remain a mute witness to genocide."

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  • crash_text_dummy
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    • 5 months ago
  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  

    • I hate cotton, can't stand to see it in the fields....

      It requires way to much in fertilizers and everything else, besides that the technology has evolved to the point you can make hemp as soft as silk, with virtually no fertilizers used in it's cultivation... Of course they can make denim (that's stronger than cotton denim) with it too, and everything else.

      I'm thankful, my nearest farmer neighbors don't even mess with Monsanto, they grow on a pretty large scale heirloom breeds, rotate crops, and appreciate sustainable agriculture.....

      The Indian farmers need to listen to Vandana Shiva a little more and quit even messing with the militant agricultural industrial complex.....

    • 5 months ago
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