India: Bumper crop brings misfortune to potato farmers

Five decades after the much talked about Green Revolution, India has failed to address steep cycles in cultivation of crops such as potato. This is a bumper year for the tuber and farmers in top producing states such as Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Punjab struggle to recover the cost of cultivation. Notably, India is harvesting a bumper crop in spite of the damage caused to one-third of the crop due to the unseasonal rains and hailstorm last month. More