​From cotton to kinnows: new crops, age-old misery

Mint 2018-02-16

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Factors from high costs, fast depleting water levels and uncertain returns from paddy, cotton, wheat push farmers to shift to potentially lucrative but risky crops such as kinnow and guar.
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