India drought: ‘330 million people affected’ – BBC News 20 April 2016

February 5, 2018 / Climate Change, India and Sri Lanka

I am looking for evidence to support the report in the NYT last month, that 100,000 Indian farmers had committed suicide because of the drought in Southeast India.  This old article in the BBC sheds some background light on the disaster. “At least 330 million people are affected by drought in India, the government has …

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