And they have big plans for the future, such as water purification.
The process of removing contaminants from water to make it clean and safe.
A quick 'high' of booming yields and incomes hooked growers during the early years of cotton in the region.
Output; the amount of crop produced.
In 2004, the panchayat (village government) formally declared Punukula to be a pesticide-free village.
To announce or state something officially or formally.
Initially the farmers’ cotton yields were low.
At first, in the first years.
A quick 'high' of booming yields and incomes hooked growers during the early years of cotton in the region.
To attract and hold the attention or interest of someone.
Neem cake applied to the soil kills insect pests and doubles as an organic fertiliser high in nitrogen.
Having a large amount of a substance within it.
The immediate payoffs from chemically-dependent cotton agriculture both ensured and obscured the fact that the black dirt fields had gone into a freefall of environmental degradation.
The process of the environment being damaged or made worse.
The immediate payoffs from chemically-dependent cotton agriculture both ensured and obscured the fact that the black dirt fields had gone into a freefall of environmental degradation.
Make people fail to notice or understand.
To protect cotton, neem seeds are simply ground into a powder, soaked overnight in water, and sprayed onto the crop...
To reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it (past participle used here).
The immediate payoffs from chemically-dependent cotton agriculture... both ensured and obscured the fact that...
Benefits or profits, especially immediate ones.
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