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UP: Far From Doubling Income, Suicide Woes Shadow Engulf Farmers -Saurabh Sharma

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The Centre has on many occasions announced to double the farmer’s income but the reality on the ground paints a different picture. Suffocated under a cycle of debt, some of them are allegedly taking the extreme step.

Banda: Ram Ruchi was just 22 at the time of his death. A young farmer from Majra Pandin village in Banda district hanged himself to death on the ill-fated day of October 7, 2021. According to Ram Ruchi’s elder brother, the young farmer was depressed due to crop loss and increasing debts.

Sitting on a charpoy under a neem tree Ram Swaroop is trying to console his elderly mother who is grieving the death by suicide of her youngest son.

Ram Swaroop says, “We have a divided family and my younger brother was living with the parents after getting the share in the property. Ram Ruchi was under mental stress owing to the rising debts. He had a loan of about Rs 30,000 from the local money lender which he took at 10 per rate of interest per month. The loan was taken after crop loss to run the family and also for the medical expenses.”

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