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Changing shopping concepts, trends HIGH-END shopping is taking on new dimensions even in some of the more traditional cities and towns that, however, constitute major consumer markets in Kerala. New malls and complexes, as well as individual shopping units, some of which could be ...
The lure of the vanilla gold has landed hundreds of farmers in deep trouble in Kerala. In the context of a farming crisis on several fronts, they went in for the new cash crop attracted by the prices the commodity used to fetch in the international m arkets until two years ago and the hype created by certain lobbies. Investment levels were high, but prices nose-dived as the crop was ready for harvest. This is but a repeat of what happened with cocoa in the past. The Government promoted its cultiv ation after multinational interests got to work, holding it out to be a promising crop. But soon enough, farmers found that they could not recoup even the input costs. What lesson does the vanilla fiasco hold for the farmers and the Government? Reade
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