• Monday, 4th May 2026

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Jaideep Hardikar

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Jaideep Hardikar

Cotton Crisis (2023)

The storm brewing in India’s cotton fields

Bt-cotton occupies 90 per cent of the land under cotton in India – and the pests that this GM variety…
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SIT report: pest attack unprecedented, ferocious

The 2017 poisoning wave points to the profuse use of pesticides in Yavatmal and the desperation of Vidarbha’s farmers. In…
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Fumes and fear in Yavatmal

This time, it was pesticide deaths of a different kind: poisoning by inadvertent inhalation. With the pink bollworm back and…
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Lethal pests, deadly sprays

What hit Vidarbha’s cotton belt, especially Yavatmal, late last year? Why were over 1,000 very sick farmers and labourers hospitalised?…
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Jaideep Hardikar

Jaideep Hardikar is a senior journalist and PARI Roving Reporter, based in Nagpur. He is author of Ramrao: The story of India’s farm crisis.

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Stories from the Field

A curated gallery of books authored by Jaideep Hardikar, with covers, concise blurbs, critical reviews, and purchase links.

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