INDIA COTTON PRODUCTION SLUMPS THROUGH DRY WEATHER – SOME GROWING REGIONS FAIL ALTOGETHER
April 1st, 2016
India’s cotton production for the 2015-16 procurement session has slumped by 16% due to insufficient rainfall in several parts of the country, notably a severe drought in the western state of Maharashtra, a key cotton producing area.
Crop failures and continuing water scarcity have damaged the rural economy with tragic consequences. “In past one year, more than 1,000 cotton farmers have committed suicide in Marathwara [a large region of the state],” Shivram Ghodke, board member of MahaOrganic, a farmer organisation in Beed (Maharashtra) told WTiN, “300 ...
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