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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India Farmer Suicides on Rise as Cotton Slump Spurs Debts -Swansy Afonso

India Farmer Suicides on Rise as Cotton Slump Spurs Debts -Swansy Afonso

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published Published on Feb 6, 2015   modified Modified on Feb 6, 2015
-Bloomberg

Shobha Singh Bais waited for her husband Govind to finish his dinner of vegetables and flatbread on Jan. 15 before eating her own, as is the custom in their village of Hivar and many others in India.

When Govind was done, the 55-year-old cotton farmer calmly told his wife that he had eaten rat poison. Shobha ran outside, calling for her 30-year-old son, Chandan, who has a tobacco stall nearby. When the two returned, Govind was frothing at the mouth. He died on an auto rickshaw as it sped to a hospital 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) away.

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Bloomberg, 4 February, 2015, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/india-farmer-suicides-on-rise-as-cotton-slump-spurs-debts


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