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When Monsoon Plays Truant [1]

The monsoon showers over the past fortnight have brought a smile to the face of Rattan Singh, a 36-year-old paddy farmer in Muktsar district of Punjab. The delay in the rains had left him fearing that his 10-acre farm would dry up. The recent rains, though, have made him believe that his troubles are over.

Publication Date: 
17/08/2009
Anilesh S. Mahajan [2]
Business World (Kolkata) [3]
Tags:
Agriculture [4], Food Crops [5], Mukteshwar [6], Monsoons [7], Farmers [8], Haryana [9], Punjab [10]
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