-The Financial Express In Madhya Pradesh’s tribal districts of Dewas and Khargone, the NGO, Samaj Pragati Sahayog, discourages cash transactions for agricultural inputs. The interest rates are usurious and vary according to commodities. For fertiliser, it is dheda—loan for the stuff has to be repaid 1.5 times over by the end of the harvest season. For pesticides it is sawa, or 1.25 times. Even barter can be extortionate. One quintal of...
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Punjab elections: The cycle of debts and farmer Suicides blight India's grain bowl -Binayak Dasgupta and Gurpreet Singh Nibber
-Hindustan Times Hamirgarh/ Dhanaula/ Chandigarh: Gurpreet Singh and Sandeep Duggal have more than 350 friends on Facebook. At 19, Gurpreet’s profile clearly gravitates to pictures of youth – astride an Enfield motorcycle, one with a friend in the corridors of a college, and the quintessential selfie with sunglasses. Duggal’s is more subdued. In a black-and-white profile photograph, he smiles with arms folded, exuding the confidence of a young man who identifies himself...
More »How Demonetisation Has Accelerated Tamil Nadu's Deepening Agrarian Crisis -R Ramasubramanian
-TheWire.in Out of the 144 recorded farmer Suicides, over 40 were from outside the Cauvery delta region. Observers and farmers directly attribute demonetisation as one major factor behind the Suicides. Tamil Nadu is facing one of its worst agrarian crises since independence. All of the state’s 32 districts have been officially declared as ‘drought-affected’. In a statement issued on January 10, chief minister O. Panneerselvam announced that the move was necessitated following...
More »Farm distress: Telangana's food output drops as paddy area shrinks -KV Kurmanath
-The Hindu Business Line Foodgrain output down 28.7% as paddy area shrinks Hyderabad: In the recent numbers released by the National Crimes Records Bureau (NCRB), Telangana stood second only to Maharashtra, with 1,400 farmers and farm labourers ending lives in the year 2015-16. The State had accounted for nearly 10 per cent of all 12,000 farm Suicides reported that year. The latest numbers gathered by the Telangana government corroborated the serious distress in the...
More »Demonetisation, farmer Suicides, and the Union budget -Roshan Kishore
-Livemint.com Crash in farm prices could accentuate bankruptcy, which was the biggest reason for farmer Suicides in 2014 and 2015 After two successive years of drought, 2016 was turning out to be a relatively better year for farmers till 8 November. The decision to scrap high-value currency notes, announced on that day, seems to have hit the farm sector the hardest. While credible and timely data on farm incomes and output is hard...
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