Farmers' choice : HindustanTimes.com

Farmers' choice : HindustanTimes.com

Now drink to the ingenuity of Telangana's farmers. First they sprayed soft drinks - in place of pesticides - on cotton crops. They are moving on to hard drinks.

In some villages in Adilabad and Karimnagar districts, farmers are experimenting with cheap liquor on crops. And the results are encouraging, they say with all the seriousness of scientists in lab coats.

The farmers turned to the bottle when the use of spurious pesticides led to crop failure. Liquor treatment is cost-effective too. A litre of cheap booze costs a little over Rs 100 and is enough to spray on

two acres. Pesticides for the same area will cost the farmers Rs 3,000-4,000 .

Very ingenious. IF this proves sustainable, Crop-dusting with Purell/Budweiser to follow...