This is at least the second article that I've seen recently concerning high suicide rates among India's farmers. That many of them choose to commit suicide by swallowing pesticide marketed to them by American conglomerates is, somehow, doubly ironic. Today's NYT reports that: In what some see as an ominous trend, food production, once India’s great pride, has failed to keep pace with the nation’s population growth in the last decade.
Let's, to use a newly- and horribly-popular term, "unpack" that, shall we?
Food production in India -- one of the world's most populous countries -- is not -- as in not -- keeping pace with population growth -- as in the number of people being born. That means just what you think it means. It means that there is not enough food for so many people. Too many people. Not enough food.
India is, BTW, one of the countries most likely to be hit hard by global climate change.
India, BTW, has atomic bombs.
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