2007-12-25 05:06:32 · 3 answers · asked by Blue Boy X 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
The truth
A poor farmer of India today earns US$ 144 from his back-breaking effort: exactly 12 dollars per month. If the entire household works an acre, including children as young as five, they just might earn US$ 464 from their meager holding of an acre, provided all factors are favorable, which rarely happens. But the corporations, their distributors and retailers extract US$ 523.57 from each acre worked whether the farmer earns even a dollar or not. This is what Dr John Coleman is talking of when he says the Rockefeller's have engineered the destruction of the independent farmers in the US and the same story is being repeated here in India.
American farmers are increasingly corporate farmers and are almost entirely mechanized and subsidized by the federal government.
2007-12-25 14:13:37 · answer #1 · answered by Max 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
measured in terms of energy efficiency (not money)
indian farmers produce a surplus
american farmers (because of apparently cheap? oil) 'produce' a loss--because of their high mechanization and use of fertilizer and the distance the products have to be transported before they are finally consumed (also waste due to legal 'size/quality' restrictions)
2007-12-25 13:57:17 · answer #2 · answered by jamus d woespuss 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
same as inbetween
the Indian citizens and American citizens.
2007-12-25 13:55:51 · answer #3 · answered by peter aka gaurav. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋