Tales through the field
Seven hours outside Chennai, my translator, other scientists, and I also view the countryside unfurl since the coach barrels along. Through the seats we feel the eyes of curious adults and schoolchildren alike around us. Tamil music blares through the coach radio. A cacophony of automobile horns accompanies.
Emily Miller speaks having a paddy farmer in regards to the challenges he faces.
Standing among paddy and sugarcane areas, we begin chatting with farmers and hear stories of why loans had been consumed the first place. Tales of crop harm by monkeys who surely got to the mangoes first. Tales of officials droughts that are denying crop loss. Tales of botched documents during the co-op that is agricultural. Continue reading “But credit access is really a risk management strategy that is poor.”