Meals Ready | movie | 1996 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Exploring the rice markets of South India from a socio-economic perspective | dG1fZjhqZjZqelBJQVU

Transcript

00:30Like the earth to the leaf and the leaf to the branch, says this local folk song, you

00:42have to depend upon me, and I have to rely upon you.

01:06Rice needs fields of standing water to grow in.

01:10The crisis of water has given rice a new market opportunity.

01:15A new breed of water sellers are making their fortune by pumping water up from more than

01:20200 feet and selling it.

01:25For a generation now, farmers have been sold the dream of chemical farming.

01:31This is where paddy arrives to be transformed into the sparkling white grains we know as

01:52rice.

02:22Political parties channelize this discontent to gain a following.