WIDE ANGLE | The Dying Fields | Excerpt | PBS

At a moment when India is enjoying record economic growth, THE DYING FIELDS turns to the four million cotton farmers who have been left behind, struggling to survive on less than two dollars a day.

WIDE ANGLE cameras follow Kishor Tiwari, former businessman turned farmer advocate, whose tiny office in the heart of this cotton-growing region functions as the archive and watchdog of the suicide epidemic; traveling salesmen hawking genetically modified - and costly - cotton seeds that require irrigation that few Vidarbha farmers have; the last rites of a farmer who couldn't pay his debts; a tour of the poison ward at the local hospital, whose beds are always filled; and a visit by then-president of India, A.J.P. Abdul Kalam, whom the farming widows beseech for help in convincing the government to forgive their debts.

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[kaychaos5]

This terrible situation caught my eye through a movie called "summer 2007"

Since im not from the indian subcontinent...we are not given much news or knowledge about this... !!

I am trying to investigate about this further...

Nothing is impossible, and that's for sure.

[BLOXmation]

Out of 4,848 viewers, 3 rated. That means one ouy of 1,616 people.

[littlepakistan]

we must concenrate in modern agriculture and share knowledge with the western farmers.