Bundelkhand: The bitter truth

2015 is a year that Indian farmer’s would want to forget. It is the second consecutive year of drought and in fact the worst ever drought that farmers would have seen in recent history. 11 states have already declared drought and other could follow soon. Of this Uttar Pradesh is the worst affected where farmers have moved away from dealing just with the farm crisis to one dealing with hunger.In this special series, we travel to the region of Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh. One region that is consistently being declared as one of the poorest regions in the country, to see what the ground realities were and how farmers were coping with this crisis and what we saw was a grim picture.Watch the accompanying video for more...