Thursday, February 10, 2011

Poor tobacco harvest in Gonda


(sify) Farmers in Gonda in Uttar Pradesh are incurring huge losses in tobacco production because of last year's floods.
Several parts of the land are unfit for cultivation, thus farmers were unable to sow enough tobacco. ... Brij Lal Singh , a farmer said "Earlier we used to make profits of 8,000-10,000 rupees ($176- 219) per acre but now we even don't earn even 3,000 ($66) from one acre" Continued

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