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Left behind: Debt relief brings little respite for India’s farmers

By Joe Leahy and Arush Chopra in Mumbai

Published: August 24 2008 18:44 | Last updated: August 24 2008 18:44

Indian farmers

Afew years ago, Kalawati Bandurkar (pictured above) was just another Indian farmer eking out a back-breaking existence from a few acres of land. Life was hard – but this was true for everyone in the village of Jalka in Vidarbha region, a remote corner of India’s western Maharashtra state.

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