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Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today. The agricultural state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels. 'The water level has gone down below 250 feet here. It used to be at 40 feet a few years ago,' Shatrughan Sahu, a villager in one of the districts, told Down To Earth magazine 'Most of the farmers here are indebted and only God can save the ones who do not have a bore well.' Mr Sahu lives in a district that recorded 206 farmer suicides last year. Police records for the district add that many deaths occur due to debt and economic distress. In another village nearby, Beturam Sahu, who owned two acres o...
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S. Muralidharan
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| 10 months ago
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Andhra Pradesh met this fate some years back, followed by Vidharba. Marginalised people of the country are worst-hit. Most of the time, they don't get loan for seed, fertilizers, insecticides, etc. from the Nationalised Banks or NABARD or...
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willscarletnss
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| 10 months ago
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Its really very sad that 1500 farmers committed mass suicide...In India agriculture is main stream...So many are exporting from other countries... -------------------- Wills [url=http://www.cdrfence.com ]CDRFENCE | Fraud Control For VoIP...
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Sudeep Tarafdar
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| 3 years ago
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Its very sad to see that the farmers are neglected like this, even now Agriculture is the main backbone for the country providing food, but what are we doing for them nothing, the government is taking care people only who are living in cities, and...
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