1. Indian farmers have doubled their output of cereal crops like wheat. 2. Catholic faithful believe the church marks the spot where an olive-skinned Virgin Mary appeared to a poor Indian farmer soon after the Spanish conquest. 3. Demand for the metal by Indian farmers, who buy it as a form of investment with proceeds from harvests, was also bolstering prices, analysts said. 4. Indian farmers here are vehemently opposed, seeing the measure as just another scheme by bankers and businessmen to further impoverish them. 5. Indian farmers -- who already have an exchange establishing prices -- have a better idea of what to charge for their crop, says Rutten. 6. Indian farmers still depend on rain-fed irrigation, and a good monsoon helps them store water for the remaining part of the year. 7. Rising rural incomes contributed to increased demand from Indian farmers who buy jewelry as a form of investment. 8. Some Indian farmers have reported grazing lands flooded, with cattle swimming in search of higher ground. 9. The people found in the simple United Nations waiting rooms range from journalists threatened because of their reports to Indian farmers who need their stories translated into Spanish. 10. The Zapatistas are primarily Indian farmers who took up arms to draw world attention to specific injustices that indigenous peoples have suffered in Chiapas. |