By June 2, only 54% of Mississippi’s cotton had been planted — compared to 89% at the same time last year, according to U.S.

Terming it a ‘cancer-causing farming’, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), the farmer’s wing of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), ...

Some of that reduction is due to the weather, but the political and economic climates are also playing against farmers.