{"id":11407,"date":"2014-09-01T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11407"},"modified":"2014-09-01T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:49:36","slug":"how-the-shale-gas-boom-changed-the-lives-of-farmers-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/how-the-shale-gas-boom-changed-the-lives-of-farmers-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Shale Gas Boom Changed The Lives Of Farmers In India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/090114_1550_HowTheShale1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Samuel Raja D. noted that the surge in America&#8217;s production of fracked gas bought great riches to farmers 21,000 km away:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guar gum is a key ingredient used in the process of fracking due to its binding, thickening and emulsifying qualities.<\/li>\n<li>It comes from a crop call guar. India is the world&#8217;s largest producer of it.<\/li>\n<li>As the shale gas boom progressed India&#8217;s exports of guar-gum shot up from $20.2 million to $3.5 billion in less than 10 years.<\/li>\n<li>The price of guar increased tenfold to $500 per 100kg.<\/li>\n<li>Farmers took the bounty to pay off their debts, build homes, and arrange lavish weddings.<\/li>\n<li>Since then frackers have found synthetic alternatives and prices have dropped to around $100 per 100kg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about why the prices dropped, the future outlook for the farmers, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/258292\/how-americas-shale-gas-boom-brought-rajasthan-farmers-a-fortune-and-why-it-is-being-taken-away\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/258292\/how-americas-shale-gas-boom-brought-rajasthan-farmers-a-fortune-and-why-it-is-being-taken-away\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Samuel Raja D. noted that the surge in America&#8217;s production of fracked gas bought great riches to farmers 21,000 km away: Guar gum is a key ingredient used in the process of fracking due to its binding, thickening and emulsifying qualities. It comes from a crop call guar. India is the world&#8217;s largest producer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/090114_1550_HowTheShale1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11412,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions\/11412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}