Check it out.
It's from the Reuters site and it is one happy uplifting story. Seems those backward Indians are finally getting with the program and switching to tractors from their traditional oxen.
Seems you only have to feed the tractor when you need it. The oxen you have to feed year round. Indian farmers are enjoying the same spike in income that American farmers saw when slavery was eliminated.
Of course, we've gilded that moment in history as the "emancipation of the slaves" so we've blocked from memory the economic realities behind that emancipation.
Anyway, nowhere in that happy story about farmers in Maharastra is the word "suicide" mentioned. I find that odd, because Maharastra has been the world leader in farmer suicides for many years.
So is this a "good" news story or just an incomplete one?
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