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Whatever else they may differ about, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator Jack Kennedy agree that U.S. farmers have big crop problems-and a big crop of votes. So far, neither candidate has offered any convincing solution for farmers' problems, but both have eagerly set about trying to harvest the votes...
Blood & Banians. Fate, for most khaki farmers, is another visit to the banian, or village moneylender. Of Jagjit's 30-bushel wheat crop, the banian already gets about a third. The banian's charge for a bushel of wheat: two bushels at harvest time, the equivalent of 100% interest. Yet Jagjit and others would rather take their chances with a local banian's mercy than ask for government credit. "The government drinks the blood of the farmers," said Jagjit fiercely. "It charges 12% interest, and wants the money back as soon as the term of the loan...
...would never knowingly take the life of any animal, he welcomes government agents who arrive to poison rats and to spray insecticides in his fields. Another Punjabi farmer, Kartar Singh, 26, grudgingly admitted that his brother from New Delhi had added 20% to last year's wheat harvest by spreading rat poison around the farm during one of his visits...
...showers them with new titles and decorations to raise their social status. Many Australian firms now supply free transportation to and from work for employees, pay them for the traveling time. In Germany, a West-phalian farmer who could not keep his pea pickers down on the farm during harvest time offered a daily lottery with a $5 prize to the winner...
...valley farmers at peak season, cannot legally send workers to an employer if he is involved in a labor dispute. And Mexican braceros, who make up more than 10% of the seasonal crop pickers, cannot be hired unless there are no Americans to fill the jobs. So just at harvest time, Smith put ranchers on the spot by demanding higher pay and setting up a picket line, thus causing a "labor dispute" under California's interpretation of the labor laws. During the precious few weeks of harvesting, the ranchers were legally barred from getting help from the U.S. Employment...