Whether, these chemicals have helped the farmers to get profitable yields is questionable going by the number of suicides and those selling their traditional lands with frustration that agriculture has let them down,” says Dr. Kamalasanan Pillai, Head of the R&D, VK- NARDEP, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu. According to Mrs. M.Thangam, a lady farmer at Kozhikoottupothai village in Kanyakumari, agriculture is one profession which always gives back twice or thrice more than what is invested in it. Be it paddy, vegetables or fruit crops, if done correctly using minimal inputs, then the harvest will be a reward in terms of size and remuneration.
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by M.J. Prabu, The Hindu, 18 December, 2008