Keshav kumar of mahabubnagar in Andhra Pradesh has three hectares land and four borewells, who was unable to drill borewells in 2010 as he had drilled a dried borewell in 2009. In mahabubnagar district AP
Keshav kumar of mahabubnagar in Andhra Pradesh has three hectares land and four borewells, who was unable to drill borewells in 2010 as he had drilled a dried borewell in 2009. In mahabubnagar district AP
Pictured here is a migrant labour, young man who comes home for sowing and for 8 months of the year is a construction labourer in Hyderabad, Vijaywada and other big cities
Pictured here is a migrant labour, young man who comes home for sowing and for 8 months of the year is a construction labourer in Hyderabad, Vijaywada and other big cities
Villagers gather at a village in Rangareddy district talk about the problem of migrant labour because earnings from agriculture are insufficient and there is much debt due to excessive drilling for groundwater
Villagers gather at a village in Rangareddy district talk about the problem of migrant labour because earnings from agriculture are insufficient and there is much debt due to excessive drilling for groundwater
Man who has returned to the village after two years talks about the time he tried to kill himself two year previously because of the debt incurred while trying to drill for ground water
Chinnama, woman in pink lost her husband the year before asfter he killed himself because he could not pay back the loan taken to drill for borewells in his land. she is now working as a construction labourer to support herself and her three children
Chinaya, who has three sons but was unable to sow his fields in 2010 for delayed rain and no money to drill borewells. he drilled 4 in 2009 and is under debt