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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | No ordinary drought: Look what the poor in Uttar Pradesh are eating to survive -Supriya Sharma

No ordinary drought: Look what the poor in Uttar Pradesh are eating to survive -Supriya Sharma

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published Published on Dec 3, 2015   modified Modified on Dec 3, 2015
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Two successive crop failures have brought the poor of Bundelkhand to the brink. The soil is too arid to plant the winter crop of wheat and families have begun to cut down on meals.

While her grandson Sultan nibbles on a roti, Shanti lies wrapped in a blanket, ignoring the hunger pangs. Her son and daughter-in-law have gone to work as daily wagers in Sehore near Bhopal, 300 kilometres away, leaving behind two of their four children with the grandparents.

There is no work in Shanti's village of Bhadauna in Lalitpur, the Uttar Pradesh district bordering Madhya Pradesh, part of the region of Bundelkhand. Unseasonal rain and hailstorms washed away the winter crop of wheat at the time of harvest in February and March. The monsoon crop of urad dal shrivelled up as the rains failed. If two successive crop failures weren't bad enough, the soil is now so arid that many farmers cannot plant the winter crop, and those who have, have stuck to sowing wheat in small parcels.

For Sahariya adivasis like Shanti, who have no land of their own and work on the fields of others, there is nothing to do, and little to eat.

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Scroll.in, 3 December, 2015, http://scroll.in/article/772593/no-ordinary-drought-look-at-what-the-poor-in-uttar-pradesh-are-eating-to-survive


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