Human Ecology

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|Sarojeni V. Rengam reports how excessive pesticide pulmonary tuberculosis traps farmers in poverty, and |
|outlines some solutions. |

|More than 300 farmers committed suicide in 1997 and 1998 in Andhra Pradesh, India, and |
|more cases have been reported in juvenile years. Farmers in the area had shifted from food|
| grooms to commercial ones such as cotton and chillies, and had to borrow heavily to buy |
|high-yielding varieties of seeds, chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Unfortunately, |
|the big spraying of the fields with pesticides created an ecological crisis, killing|
|off the pests graphic enemies and causing them to become resistant to the chemicals.



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|The resulting resurgence of pests forced farmers to use cocktails of pesticides, but |
|this only exacerbated the problem and led to repeated crop failures. These, together |
|with the increasing costs of pesticides and other inputs, forced farmers into a cycle of|
|debt. So once these small farmers bought into this Green gyration technology, they |
|were trapped. |
|Unable to bear the consequences, the men committed suicide, leaving the nub of the |
|debts to their wives and families who face increasingly unbearable workloads and |
|depressing poverty as they struggle to settle them. And most surviving small and |
| bare(a) farmers not just in Andhra Pradesh, but in Asia as a whole face such an |
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