India’s cotton industry losing profitability
Farmers consider abandoning sector worth $1bn claiming profit margins are too low.
Published On 15 Dec 2013
Cotton farmers across India are feeling the pinch.
While they produce bumper crops many are struggling to make a profit, and with a dwindling workforce of cotton pickers some are considering leaving the industry all together.
Al Jazeera’s Sohail Rahman reports from Bharuch in the western state of Gujarat.
Source: Al Jazeera