New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- When Lal Singh Thakur sowed soybean on his three-acre farm in Pipla, Nagpur, in July, he was hoping the monsoon would revive his crop. Instead, the rains failed, his 300-foot borewell dried up and the soybean plants withered. "I will not earn a penny from it this year. I had invested Rs.40,000 in it," said Thakur, who used soybean saved from last year's harvest as seed. Last year, he harvested about 18 quintals from the same land and earned around Rs.1 lakh after expenses. This year, he does not expect to recover his investment. The field is now so dry, he said, that even animals have little to graze on. Thakur is not alone. His misfortune in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region is a reflection of the stress being reported ...