Punjab: India’s granary and a success story of the Green Revolution? Farmers raking in fortunes through modern technologies and hard work? A model for the rest of India and the world? That perhaps was the picture some time ago. Today, however, it is a story of degraded soil, depleted water tables, reduced productivity, and farmer suicides. How did things change so quickly?
As the sun sets on the sepia-coloured horizon, Ram Pal sits alone to tell his story. ‘Let the land open wide and swallow us up. My nine acres have become unproductive due to waterlogging. The fields are full of wild grass. I have a family of three to feed and a debt of Rs 50,000 to repay,’ laments the 60-year-old farmer from Kalalwala village in Punjab’s Bhatinda district. Now Ram Pal goes to the nearby town every day to work as a labourer.Click here to read more…
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