-Down to Earth National Human Rights Commission has sought report from the state The K Chandrasekhar Rao government in Telangana seems to have failed to deliver on its promise of reforming the crisis-ridden farm sector in the state. Unofficial figures suggest that more than 400 farmers have committed suicide in the past six months. Telangana, the youngest state in the country, came into existence on June 2 this year. Rao and other leaders...
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Maharashtra records highest number of farmer suicides this year -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Maharashtra continues to face the challenge of dealing with rising cases of farmers' suicide. It has reported 204 such suicides in the first four months of the year - which is nearly half of what the state had reported in the entire year in 2013. The Union agriculture ministry on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha of Maharashtra's dubious record followed by Telangana, Karnataka and Gujarat. Though...
More »Solution glosses over key problem: farmers are landless -Sreenivas Janyala
-The Indian Express Oorugonda/ Warangal: Twenty -two kilometres from Warangal, a narrow road from National Highway 202 leads to Oorugonda, a village of around a thousand farmers in Atmakur mandal. An eerie silence hangs around it, with a few middle-aged men sitting under a tree looking up inquisitively at visitors. They are not done grieving for 40-year-old Modanti Krishnamma. Last week, she killed herself after the cotton crop she and her husband...
More »'Robbed' of loan waiver, Tulluru farmers wary of land pooling
-The Times of India VIJAYAWADA: Farmers in the proposed Andhra Pradesh capital region are putting up a strong resistance to the AP government's plans of land pooling as many of them were recently declared ineligible for farm loan waiver. According to the initial lists of beneficiaries circulated in local banks, a majority of farmers in the region were declared ineligible for loan waiver thanks to new restrictions imposed by the government. For...
More »Burdened by debts, farmer suicides mark Telangana's birth -Prasad Nichenametla
-The Hindustan Times Nalgonda/Warangal: Dasari Ramulu, 45, and Polaboyina Pochaiah, 35, are two of the 348 Telangana farmers, who committed suicide since June 2 when Telangana became a state. The reasons behind their decision are not unique - crop failures due to poor rains and a nonexistent irrigation system and debt burdens. The debt-to-death arithmetic is simple: Each attempt to get water through bore wells costs Rs. 1 lakh and cotton seeds...
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