With farmers' suicides in Karnataka touching 800, the highest ever in the state, the government is quickly pushing through an initiative to promote cash-rich horticulture farming by linking up the poor and marginalfarmer directly to private companies that deal with agri-produce.

Using a programme devised by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance ( UPA) in its second term for integrated agriculture development through private-public-partnerships (PPP-IAD), the state's horticulture departmentis dovetailing state, central and corporate initiatives to turn the farmer into a horti-business entrepreneur...................Read more

Source: The Economic Times