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Impoverished farmers switch to lucrative cash crops, land in crop-failure and debt trap
Impoverished farmers switch to lucrative cash crops, little realizing this will trap in a cycle of crop failure and debt.
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Samar Halarnkar
ISSUE DATE: Jun 8, 1998
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UPDATED: Mar 22, 2013 12:33 IST
Legacy of tears: The widow and child of pulse farmer Bharat Shankar Appa, who committed suicide in Bidar, Karnataka