Constructing agrarian alternatives: The case of non-pesticidal management in Andhra Pradesh
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30/06/2011
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Asian Biotechnology and Development Review
This article studies the development of the Non-Pesticidal Management Project (NPM) that emerged in the late 1980s in Andhra Pradesh's Warangal district of the semi-arid region Telengana as a response to accumulating agrarian distress, when chemical pesticides did not help to counter massive pest infestations.