archive for August 28th, 2007

“The Dying Fields: India’s Forgotten Farmers” on PBS

by Bonnie P. @ Tuesday, August 28th, 2007.

(The Dying Fields: India’s Forgotten Farmers - TV - Review - New York Times )ht on PBS about farmers in India caught in a debt nightmare, you may find yourself thinking at first of America’s mortgage mess.But by the end, don’t be surprised if your neurons, always eager to categorize the new and the incomprehensible, give an entirely different spin to the strange goings-on the program documents: These impoverished cotton farmers have traits in common with suicide bombers.No, they are not blowing up bystanders in the name of a god or a political cause…. And the government support system in this country is close to non-existent - the central cause of the enormous distress that so many of them have had here in central India in the cotton farming belt.It is interesting to compare the transformation of the Indian economy and where the rural economy fits in, with what happened in the United States during the 1980s where we saw massive transformation of its rural farm economy.

Don’t sterilize our nuts: Take action on almonds

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Tuesday, August 28th, 2007.

It’s time for action on almonds.
The above photo shows almonds lying on the ground shortly after being shaken from a tree. The nuts are covered by a hull, which has started to peel back in the above specimens, and a shell. I took the photo during a CUESA-organized tour of Lagier Ranches in […]

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