-Deutsche Welle/ The Telegraph Financial burdens caused by climate change and government polices have led to an rise in the number of suicides among agricultural workers, experts say. The Maharashtra state has suffered more than most New Delhi: In India, over 600 farmers in the region of Marathwada, Maharashtra state, have died from suicide this year, according to official figures, with a majority of deaths blamed on rains that damaged thousands of...
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An agricultural labourer died by suicide every 2 hours in 2021: NCRB -Shagun
-Down to Earth Some 5,563 agricultural labourers died by suicide in 2021, according to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau Agriculture was said to be the sole bright spot for India’s gross domestic product growth, clocking a positive growth rate when other sectors fell to the pandemic during the last two years. But the growth did not translate much for agricultural labourers as at least one agricultural labourer died...
More »Farmers’ suicides increase by 19% in Andhra Pradesh: NCRB
-Deccan Chronicle Visakhapatnam: Farmer Suicides in Andhra Pradesh increased by over 19 per cent in 2021 compared to the previous year, as per the latest National Crime Records Bureau Report. The state stood in third place in Farmer Suicides in the country, the third time in a row, data provided by the NCRB showed. A total of 1,065 people working in the farm sector (farmers, tenant farmers and workers) ended their lives...
More »Plight of the small peasantry in Punjab is affecting their mental health, highlights field-based study
Door-to-door and village-to-village surveys carried out by researchers of the Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana detected a total of 9,291 suicides that were committed by farmers in six districts of Punjab during the period from 2000 to 2018. Situated in the Malwa region of Punjab, which is known for cotton farming and the prevalence of cancer among its population, Sangrur (2,506) witnessed the highest number of...
More »As farm debt drives Punjab farmers to suicide, loan waiver demand set to gain momentum -Vikas Vasudeva
-The Hindu Farmer outfits in Punjab say they will be forced to start an agitation against the State AAP government if a complete farm loan debt waiver is not announced shortly A recent study on farmers’ suicide in Punjab by Ludhiana-based Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has revealed that in six districts of the State, as many as 9,291 farmers have died by suicide between the years 2000-2018 and around 88% of the...
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