Farm Crisis

With the fuel price surge, everything else has doubled or tripled in price. Fertilisers, equipment, and other supplies now eat up the bulk of the farmers’ budgets. They say next year is looking even less promising. Though farmers have found themselves in dire straits, many of the families have worked the land for over a century and they‘ve been through a lot of crises. They believe they will pull through this crisis as well. What is their survival strategy?

by Lakhwinder Singh (Author), Kesar Singh Bhangoo (Author), Rakesh Sharma (Author)
This volume provides a comprehensive and detailed socio-economic overview of agrarian distress in India which has manifested in the suicides of farmers and agricultural labourers. Using empirical research and field data from rural India, especially Punjab, this book examines the underlying causes of farmer suicide and steps which can mitigate the crisis

A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s