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Sunday, May 16, 2010

US farmers are bailed out, Indian farmers are left to die http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=10576&lg=en

Amidst the raging debate on the farm suicide toll in India comes this interesting report about the huge agricultural subsidies being doled out to the US farmers. In India, nearly 200,000 farmers have taken the fatal route to escape the humiliation that comes along with growing indebtedness (in the absence of direct income support) between 1997 and 2008. 

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