>How does this comport with Vandana Shiva's dire tales of Indian >farmers miserably exploited by international agribusiness and the >gene modifiers? > >Doug
Ulhas was writing about rich farmers, not the poor majority. Why he did is anybody's guess. It is like asking somebody about the situation of farmers in the USA and getting a report on California agribusiness rather than the collapse of family farms all through the prairie states. In any case, for those who want a less sanguine view of the situation in India, I recommend Economic and Political Weekly at: http://www.epw.org.in/showIndex.php The current online issue has an article titled "Suicide by Farmers in Karnataka" by Andhra Pradesh, which makes distinctions between the "kulaks" identified by Ulhas and the poorer farmers who kill themselves out of despair. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
