farm as an offer it would by fifty percent of their land and replace the remaining fifty percent with a plot of land in another location. just have hunted by is the third generation of his family to work as a cotton farmer. he owns forty had his of land when there s not much rain he grows wheat bust when there is plenty of rain he plants cotton as it brings in more money . during the harvest him ploys up to twenty day laborers for the time consuming task of gathering in the cotton these workers include children that s not unusual in india for many families in rural areas harvest time is the one opportunity to earn money. modern cured all of the farmers can t do anything else but. we didn t have
a hard life as i did i hope they have a better life. and so she stands here every evening hoping that the money making city won t one day swallow up her home. inside the city life is good. for younger my history and her husband come to this club regularly with their friends. and. a glass of beer cost the equivalent of a full year as the only people in india who can afford these prices are the ones who work for an international company. the average wage in india otherwise is one hundred thirty euros a month. the software developers and managers here have become almost a cost of if. they seal themselves off from the perceived threat outside the city
villagers agree to leave their land but they re refusing to go i believe they are even if the government stacks up money from the ground to the sky we re not going our. ninety five thousand people in twenty two villages are required to leave their homes to make way for the delay or dream city. this opposed to move elsewhere and give up their ancestral lands. but what they actually want to do is continue farming for generations it s the only life these families have no and the next generation is not prepared for modern life in the city now i have it on my children here can only go to school until eighth grade or if the government is really interested in promoting our development they should first set of classes going to twelfth grade. or neighbor if we have no land left to farm we won t be able to find wives for our sons who would want to marry into a family that has no land with them if. the government has made the
a day laborer i m dependent on others to give me work. life was better when i had my own land now the land is gone and so is the money. yes i are we got money for the land and now we ve used it all up. if i still had my land i could plant wheat and millet and we could live well off that. that s all why doggie robert and. pham is like a child on bottom and by will not share in the profit made by the speculators the economic boom that everyone here is expecting will pass him by. those who simply sell their land as he did lose the means of earning an income both