The dying fields
By: Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; a presentation of Thirteen /WNET New York ; producer/director, Fred de Sam Lazaro
Contributors: Bhagwati, Jagdish N., 1934-; Sanders, Jay O., 1953-; Wide angle (Television program); Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm); WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); Films Media Group
Series: ECO 420 (NU course); MGT 430 (NU course); MGT 602 (NU course); MGT 630 (NU course); MGT 680 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Agriculture; Cotton growing; Cotton farmers
Other titles: Dying fields :; Despair in India's cotton belt
Description: "Once known as India's cotton belt, the cotton-growing region of Vidarbha, central India, is now being called the suicide belt.  Crop failures, sinking global cotton prices, spiraling debt, and a forbidding bureaucracy are driving farmers to unbearable levels of despair.  This Wide angle report captures the tense relations between farmers and illegal money lenders, traveling salesmen hawking expensive "miracle seeds, " and a businessman-turned-activist who is staking a political career on the cause of Vidarbha's farmers -- and farm widows."--Container.
Notes: DVD release of a program broadcast on the PBS television series Wide angle.

Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Speakers, Daljit Dhaliwal and Jagdish Bhagwati ; narrator: Jay O. Sanders.

DVD-R.

Closed-captioned.