Why Rajasthan farmers are full of beans

July 17, 2012 15:40

A hard little bean has helped score "a rare victory for the littlest of the little guys in global trade," Gardiner Harris wrote in The New York Times from Lordi, India.
An increase in guar prices "is helping to transform this part of the state of Rajasthan in northwestern India, one of the world's poorest places,' he wrote. "Tractor sales are soaring, land prices are increasing and weddings have grown even more colorful."

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