Agriculture & Animal Husbandary

The most detrimental factor to their livelihoods is failed crop cycles due to drought, disease, poor seed quality, or any other number of circumstances. Crop failure leaves farmers without food to feed themselves or sell in the market. It also greatly reduces the availability of fodder for their livestock, thus extending the negative impact. The introduction of commercial seeds, unsustainable irrigation techniques, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides have only worsened the situation as these practices reduce soil fertility.Low yields also result in an increase of farmers forced to migrate bringing undue stress on the women and children of the family who are left at home to fend for themselves. In other cases, family members are forced to seek out wage labourer in the health hazardous stone mines where the working conditions greatly increase the risk of occupational lung diseases such as silicosis and tuberculosis.

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