"In short, this is a problem that touches on many facets and is a problem that cannot be solved in the short term."

"Recorder: Sun Daily reporter Karaya."

"September 27: Police have found a number of half-naked bodies of teenage girls near Lahore after nearly 50 bodies of children and girls were brutally murdered in the suburbs of Mumbai on the 11th of last month. Official figures show that the number of children missing in India is about 50,000 each year. However, this figure has been refuted by non-governmental organizations that actually search for children, claiming that the number of children who have actually disappeared is at least 10 times more than the official figures, and may even exceed a million. According to the head of the civil society organization, it is clear that the missing children are abducted and abducted in an organized manner, and most of them fall victim to criminal groups, including children who have been forcibly amputated to become street beggars, and a large number of them have been killed, and criminals have taken organs from their bodies to buy and sell them...... These crimes have not been proven to date, but it is conceivable that child abduction has become a lucrative black industry for criminals. ”

"So far, the bodies found in the suburbs of Mumbai indicate a horrific serial murder. The offenders were a local businessman who was respected by the neighborhood and a male maid. Over the past two years, they have abducted, killed, and killed dozens of children and girls. The methods were brutal, and the bodies were discarded directly and then in various packaging, or buried deep in nearby ditches. When the police found the bodies, most of them were only heads and lower limbs, and the body fragments could not be recovered. ”

"The exhumation of the remains of the missing children at the scene of the crime is still ongoing. Yesterday another body was exhumed, leaving only a thigh bone and a number of human fragments. The police officers involved in the investigation have confirmed that the dismemberment of the child's body is very skilled and should be a professional surgeon. At the same time, a complete set of surgical tools was seized at the home of the person involved. It is highly likely that it will not be ruled out that the case involved the sale of human organs. ”

"Despite such horrific cases, children have continued to go missing in the last two weeks. Among them were three underage girls. In front of the media, local police officials made no secret of the fact that children are missing every day not only here, but all over India, and their whereabouts have never been known since. There are many reasons for this, mainly because police officers do not try to find them, and cases of missing persons are rarely disclosed. ”

New Scientist Weekly, July 8, 2000, Recorder, Wendelma. Sharma. ”

"India is suffering from drought again this year. More than 50 million people in the central and western parts of the country are without water. High temperatures and lack of water have killed thousands of cattle. Because the local food reserves were relatively abundant, there was no famine. However, this may well be the last time India has survived a crisis of this magnitude. The problem of water scarcity is so great that there is a good chance that a drought in future years could lead to a new famine. To make matters worse, Punjab and Haryana, India's major agricultural states, are facing a serious environmental crisis. ”

"The statement of the granary is not an exaggeration. Historically, the Punjab and Haryana have had a Green Revolution that has greatly improved agricultural productivity through the massive use of agricultural machinery, pesticides, improved fertilizer and irrigation techniques, and the replacement of traditional crops with high-yielding crops. Judging from the data of the previous year, more than 80 percent of the grain produced in India each year is provided by these two places. ”

"However, the Indians are destroying their own granaries. In particular, crop yields and increasingly scarce water resources are reducing high-quality arable land at an alarming rate. In some places where the situation is severe, it is almost barren. Local farmers have had to go into heavy debt because of their investment in agricultural equipment and reliance on pesticides, unemployment in rural areas has increased dramatically, and the number of suicides is increasing...... All this is a precursor to the deterioration of the agricultural economy. ”

"The introduction of rice in Punjab and Haryana has been proven wrong. This crop is not a traditional local crop. It is true that advanced irrigation technology has made it possible to grow rice locally, and the price of rice is higher than that of traditional crops. Especially in Punjab, rice was originally used as a cash crop and was widely cultivated next to wheat. However, rice has a great influence on the field, it absorbs water from the soil, especially during the rice growing season, where the height of the aquifer is declining at an alarming rate because of over-pumping to ensure growth. ”

"Local farmers are inexperienced in the management of new crops. The nutrients of the land are sucked away in large quantities, and the poor soil lacks the micro-cooling element. To supplement these trace elements, farmers are increasingly using chemical fertilizers. This has another serious consequence———— large amounts of nitrate seep into the groundwater veins, causing even more terrible pollution. ”

"There are many examples of arable land being barren due to the overuse of chemical fertilizers. Countries are trying to solve this problem. However, the Indian government clearly does not have a long-term vision, and they are even encouraging farmers to increase the use of fertilizers. This situation is related to the background that the Government of India is working to promote industrial development. This is because the agricultural sector, like any other sector, needs to be based on industrial equipment. In the case of the sugar industry, for example, there is no suitable sugar processing plant in Punjab, and the soil conditions there are not suitable for growing sugar cane. However, there are now more than 20 sugar factories there, and the local government is preparing to continue to apply for expansion of production and the construction of more factories of the same type. ”

This is a crime, and it is another terrible, despicable, and dirty criminal act under the banner of "agricultural production." This kind of production is extremely destructive and can only be profited by a few people. However, the price to be paid is the number of poor farmers in the local area, as many as tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions. Quite simply, only the well-to-do have access to water, especially for production. Large-scale farms are squeezing out the living space of traditional agriculture. They appear to belong to a new type of industry, but they come at the cost of destroying traditional industries. It is foreseeable that in the future, a large number of people in India will definitely be starved to death. ”

"This is definitely not an exaggeration. If the current situation continues, the unrealistic, purpose-built agricultural framework of Haryana and Punjab will collapse completely. By that time, India's grain production will be drastically reduced. Even now, India's food security remains precarious. Because they gave birth to too much. The large population base has led to a multiplication of new births, and no progress has been made in the long term in increasing food production (the Chinese have done a good job in this regard, whether it is improving traditional rice varieties or expanding the area of arable land, they have been working hard). It's hard to imagine a country that is largely self-sufficient in terms of food, and has an unimaginably large population base). This leads to another problem———— they must rely on massive food imports to feed more than a billion hungry people. ”

"Now, the problem has reached a point where it is urgent and must be solved. It is necessary to stop relying mainly on the supply of traditional granaries, and increase the cultivation and support of cultivated land in other regions. Rice must be replaced with drought-adapted crops, sorghum and maize, or potatoes. ”

"Sun Daily headline: Who is to blame for such a tragedy?"

"On this grey morning in the sky, a desperate Indian farmer drank an entire bottle of pesticide and collapsed on the door of his hut."

"He is only thirty-three years old, has a beautiful wife, and has three young children. The family's main property is a cotton field with an area of 28 acres. This is the only source of income for the family. In normal times, cotton is sold for enough to sustain the family's normal expenses, and even some of the fertility. However, this year's situation was terrible, three consecutive plantings, without any harvest———— dry weather affected cotton growth, and the seeds did not germinate at all. The last time it was due to excessive rain. This is the case during the rainy season, when poor drainage systems lead to a large accumulation of rainwater that soaks everything in the ground...... The desperate peasant could not bear the blow and had no choice but to commit suicide. However, after his death, he was left with only great grief for his wife and children, and a debt that had to be paid by them. ”

"The crisis is getting worse and worse, and the biggest problem affecting agriculture at its root, as well as the daily lives of civilians, is water. Delhi, for example, is home to water scarcity that is representative of the whole of India. Due to the severe disrepair of the water supply network in urban areas, in any city in India, the water plant only supplies water to citizens for a few hours a day. However, even more serious than the water supply problem is sewage treatment. Because we can neither solve the problem of water scarcity nor treat the sewage generated by the city. To make matters worse, about half of people's homes are not connected to public sewerage facilities. In this way, a large amount of sewage and domestic sewage is discharged directly into the river. This practice is considered a crime in other countries, but in our case it is normal. ”

"This set of issues is not isolated. They provoke very serious, extremely terrible consequences———— diseases. ”

"According to last year's statistics, about three million children under the age of five die each year in India due to lack of clean water. They don't have access to a clean and hygienic environment, and even handwashing is a luxury. However, the government, on the other hand, does not have enough money to maintain or build new infrastructure, nor can it provide the people with the water they need to live. ”

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