Once known as India’s Cotton Belt, the cotton-growing region of Vidarbha, central India, is now being called the Suicide Belt. Crop failures, sinking global cotton prices, spiraling debt, and a forbidding bureaucracy are driving farmers to unbearable levels of despair. This Wide Angle report captures the tense relations between farmers and illegal money lenders, traveling salesmen hawking expensive “miracle seeds,” and a businessman-turned-activist who is staking a political career on the cause of Vidarbha’s farmers—and farm widows. An interview between Daljit Dhaliwal and Columbia University’s Jagdish Bhagwati, Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, concludes the program.

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Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India, Cotton growing -- India., Cotton farmers -- India, Cotton growing -- Economic aspects -- India, Vidarbha (India)

Lazaro, Fred de Sam (Producer), Lazaro, Fred de Sam (Director), Dhaliwal, Daljit (Contributor), Bhagwati, Jagdish (Narrator), PBS television, Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) (Distributor)

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English

Higher education

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