Drought, debt and despair drove the Indian farmers to desperate
solutions. To survive this period, farmers borrow money from
moneylenders, called "Paisawalla" (in Hindi, rich people who borrow
money), but interest rates are very high, notes CNN.
Because fail to pay their debts many farmers come to work for those that have borrowed to manage to cover the whole sum, and in very desperate cases, including amounts large enough men come to sell their wives. "It happens and when people borrow something," said the wife of a farmer. According to the police said that a rich man bought it. For 30 days farmer's wife was forced to live with an unknown man. When the case was publicly revealed she returned to her husband, but has retired from the police filed charges against the usurer.
Most of the farmers living in rural areas of India still use animal traction when it comes to agricultural work. A farmer behind a plow paralyzed with animal traction seems a movie scene to people living in developed countries and highly mechanized, but for farmers in Northern India, Bundelkhand, is how to manage to put something on the table.
Because fail to pay their debts many farmers come to work for those that have borrowed to manage to cover the whole sum, and in very desperate cases, including amounts large enough men come to sell their wives. "It happens and when people borrow something," said the wife of a farmer. According to the police said that a rich man bought it. For 30 days farmer's wife was forced to live with an unknown man. When the case was publicly revealed she returned to her husband, but has retired from the police filed charges against the usurer.
Most of the farmers living in rural areas of India still use animal traction when it comes to agricultural work. A farmer behind a plow paralyzed with animal traction seems a movie scene to people living in developed countries and highly mechanized, but for farmers in Northern India, Bundelkhand, is how to manage to put something on the table.
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