Price crash drives Bengal potato farmers into distress
Three years of mounting losses in potato farming have pushed the family of Minakshi Ghose, a farmer from Kalna in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district, into distress. She said her father-in-law, 78-year-old Sailen Ghose, died by suicide about two weeks ago, allegedly after he failed to sell his potato crop, leaving the family in debt…