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Impoverished no more: Indian bean farmers grow fracking's special ingredient

Michael Allan McCrae | July 19, 2012 | 7:30 pm Asia 

A hard bean, the guar, grown in India's most arid and hard scrabble region is a key ingredient in making hydraulic fracturing better. And the impoverished farmers, according to the New York Times, are now benefiting from the boom: The...

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