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After Selling Crop At A Loss, Telangana Farmers Return Home With Pesticide
A frightening scenario is unfolding in Telangana's Warangal district that has been infamous as the cotton farmer suicide capital of the country. At least 21 farmers have killed themselves in the last two weeks in the district, including four farmer suicides in Parvathagiri Mandal that never used to report farmer suicides.
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Punjab Cotton Farmers' Dilemma: Despite More Crop Yield, Profit Is Meagre
For 12 years, the majority of Punjab's farmers have been growing Bt cotton, or genetically modified cotton seeds, which have protected their crops from pests like bollworms. Their yields have doubled too. However, in the last few years, Bt cotton has displayed a remarkable vulnerability to a large number of sap feeding pests like white-flies, which...
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Rahul Gandhi Pitches Congress Alternative to Punjab Farmers in Distress
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today visited the family of a farmer who had allegedly killed himself due to cotton crop failure in Punjab and accused the state's Akali Dal-BJP alliance of neglecting farmers.
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53 Bottles of Scotch in Home of Punjab Official Accused of Duping Farmers
Details of bank transactions running into crores, thousands of US and Canadian dollars and a large stock of expensive liquor were recovered from the home of a Punjab bureaucrat, police have said.
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Police Cases Against 5 Pesticide Distributors After Malwa Cotton Crop Failure
Punjab police has registered five cases against distributors for the alleged supply of spurious pesticides responsible for cotton crop damage in Malwa region. Many farmers have killed themselves after their crop was infested with pests despite all precautions.
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In Punjab, How Failing Pesticides, Seeds Are Claiming Farmers' Lives
Seven acres of pest-infested cotton, an old mother, two sisters and a six-lakh debt, is what Kala Singh has left behind. The 33-year-old Punjab farmer killed himself on Wednesday by drinking the same pesticide that failed to save his crop.
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Tamil Nadu Cotton Farmer Kills Himself After Friday's Rains Destroy Half His Crop
A thirty-year-old cotton farmer from Tamil Nadu's Tiruvarur district, killed himself yesterday by consuming pesticide, after heavy, unseasonal rains on Friday night destroyed half his crop.
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Standing in His Ruined Fields, Ramesh Khamankar Drank a Bottle of Pesticide
In January, Ramesh Khamankar, a cotton farmer in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district walked to his ruined fields and drank from a bottle of pesticide. He died a few hours later. He was 57.
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After Selling Crop At A Loss, Telangana Farmers Return Home With Pesticide
A frightening scenario is unfolding in Telangana's Warangal district that has been infamous as the cotton farmer suicide capital of the country. At least 21 farmers have killed themselves in the last two weeks in the district, including four farmer suicides in Parvathagiri Mandal that never used to report farmer suicides.
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Punjab Cotton Farmers' Dilemma: Despite More Crop Yield, Profit Is Meagre
For 12 years, the majority of Punjab's farmers have been growing Bt cotton, or genetically modified cotton seeds, which have protected their crops from pests like bollworms. Their yields have doubled too. However, in the last few years, Bt cotton has displayed a remarkable vulnerability to a large number of sap feeding pests like white-flies, which...
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Rahul Gandhi Pitches Congress Alternative to Punjab Farmers in Distress
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today visited the family of a farmer who had allegedly killed himself due to cotton crop failure in Punjab and accused the state's Akali Dal-BJP alliance of neglecting farmers.
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53 Bottles of Scotch in Home of Punjab Official Accused of Duping Farmers
Details of bank transactions running into crores, thousands of US and Canadian dollars and a large stock of expensive liquor were recovered from the home of a Punjab bureaucrat, police have said.
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Police Cases Against 5 Pesticide Distributors After Malwa Cotton Crop Failure
Punjab police has registered five cases against distributors for the alleged supply of spurious pesticides responsible for cotton crop damage in Malwa region. Many farmers have killed themselves after their crop was infested with pests despite all precautions.
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In Punjab, How Failing Pesticides, Seeds Are Claiming Farmers' Lives
Seven acres of pest-infested cotton, an old mother, two sisters and a six-lakh debt, is what Kala Singh has left behind. The 33-year-old Punjab farmer killed himself on Wednesday by drinking the same pesticide that failed to save his crop.
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Tamil Nadu Cotton Farmer Kills Himself After Friday's Rains Destroy Half His Crop
A thirty-year-old cotton farmer from Tamil Nadu's Tiruvarur district, killed himself yesterday by consuming pesticide, after heavy, unseasonal rains on Friday night destroyed half his crop.
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Standing in His Ruined Fields, Ramesh Khamankar Drank a Bottle of Pesticide
In January, Ramesh Khamankar, a cotton farmer in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district walked to his ruined fields and drank from a bottle of pesticide. He died a few hours later. He was 57.
