Farmers Paid More

Today’s Business Standard:

Punjab farmers’ incomes are expected to get a big push with the arrival of the corporate sector in retail.
The main factor in this is the demand created by the corporate houses for fresh fruits and vegetables, which will not only inflate farm income but will also help to contain the declining fertility of the soil and the water table in Punjab as the crops other than wheat and rice would become more profitable for the cultivators.
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Now the scenario has been changing. Players like Subhiksha have started purchasing directly from the farmers.

Good stuff. And the fact that it happened before farmers there started commiting suicide is even better.

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0 Responses to Farmers Paid More

  1. Sukhpreet says:
    January 19, 2007 at 2:03 am

    Suicides were happening already though may be not on a similar scale as elsewhere.

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