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"Time Has Come For Farmers To Run The Country": KCR At 1st National Rally
Stating that Maharashtra has recorded the highest number of farmers' suicides in the country, BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said in Nanded that the time has come for peasants to take the reins of the country.
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Number Of Farmer Suicides Fell To 5,579 In 2020: Agriculture Minister
The number of farmers who committed suicide dropped to 5,579 in 2020 as compared to 5,957 in the previous year, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed Parliament on Tuesday, citing the latest NCRB report.
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How Bad Is Maharashtra Farmer Crisis? 8 Suicides Every Day For 4 Years
As many as 12,021 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra from 2015 to 2018 for reasons that included bank loans and crop failure, averaging eight deaths a day. This number is over double that of the preceding four-year period from January 2011 to December 2014, when 6,268 farmers killed themselves.
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Farmer Suicides Doubled In Maharashtra In Last 4 Years, Shows RTI Reply
At a time when drought has been declared in about half of Maharashtra - about 150 tehsils out of 360 - a Right to Information query has revealed that the number of farmer suicides in the state has doubled in the last four years.
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Kerala Farmer Kills Self Over "Mounting Debts", Ninth Suicide In 2 Months
Apparently distressed by mounting debts and damage to crops due to the August floods, a 49-year-old farmer from Thrissur district allegedly killed himself on Friday, taking the total number of farmer deaths in Kerala in the last two months to nine.
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Monsoon This Year Brings Relief For Farmers In Karnataka's Mandya
Mandya district in Karnataka is the region that has seen the highest number of farmer suicides in the state over the past few years. This year, the monsoon has been generous so far in southern Karnataka -- and farmers in Mandya are more hopeful than they have been in years
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How Many Industrialists Committed Suicides, Asks Anna Hazare
Social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday sought to know the number of industrialists committing suicide in the country and claimed that the farmers doing the same was 12 lakh in the last 22 years.
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3 Farmers Commit Suicide In 24 Hours In Madhya Pradesh
Three farmers have ended their lives in Madhya Pradesh in the last 24 hours, taking the number of farmer suicides in the state in the last week to five.
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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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After Tamil Nadu, Gujarat Lawmakers Come To Blows in Assembly
Lawmakers came to blows in the Gujarat assembly on Thursday after an angry argument on the number of farmer suicides turned violent between Congress and BJP legislators. The casualty list included a minister in the Vijay Rupani government and two Congress members.
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Kheelghatta In Karnataka: A Portrait Of A Village Struggling With Drought
Kheelghatta is a non-descript village with no ancient temples, famous people or tourist spots. There is nothing special about this village but it falls in Karnataka's Mandya - the district that saw the highest number of farmer suicides in Karnataka last year. With summer getting unusually harsh, people here are trying to cope with the heat and the ...
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Drought, Closure Of Factory Turn Sugarcane Farmers Bitter In Karnataka
Mandya is the sugarcane belt of Karnataka, at least in good years. But in 2015, the district saw the highest number of farmer suicides in the state.
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Amravati Awaits Fund Disbursal to Make Farmers Debt-Free
The Amravati district, infamous for high number of farmers' suicides, is awaiting disbursal of funds allocated by Maharashtra government under a scheme to make those farmers debt-free who have taken loans from private money lenders.
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Maharashtra to Launch Mental Health Scheme to Curb Farmers Suicides
In the wake of rising cases of farmers' suicides, Maharashtra Government has decided to launch a mental health scheme aimed at bringing down the number of deaths due to the agrarian crisis.
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After Another Farmer Suicide in Karnataka, a House of Darkness for This Family
Karnataka has not traditionally been seen as a state with a large number of farmer suicides. But this year has been unusual, and the month of July saw 188 deaths in the state. Many were in debt as sugar factories stopped payments, fall in prices and exorbitant interest rates by moneylenders have forced farmers to take the extreme step.
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"Time Has Come For Farmers To Run The Country": KCR At 1st National Rally
Stating that Maharashtra has recorded the highest number of farmers' suicides in the country, BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said in Nanded that the time has come for peasants to take the reins of the country.
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Number Of Farmer Suicides Fell To 5,579 In 2020: Agriculture Minister
The number of farmers who committed suicide dropped to 5,579 in 2020 as compared to 5,957 in the previous year, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed Parliament on Tuesday, citing the latest NCRB report.
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How Bad Is Maharashtra Farmer Crisis? 8 Suicides Every Day For 4 Years
As many as 12,021 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra from 2015 to 2018 for reasons that included bank loans and crop failure, averaging eight deaths a day. This number is over double that of the preceding four-year period from January 2011 to December 2014, when 6,268 farmers killed themselves.
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Farmer Suicides Doubled In Maharashtra In Last 4 Years, Shows RTI Reply
At a time when drought has been declared in about half of Maharashtra - about 150 tehsils out of 360 - a Right to Information query has revealed that the number of farmer suicides in the state has doubled in the last four years.
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Kerala Farmer Kills Self Over "Mounting Debts", Ninth Suicide In 2 Months
Apparently distressed by mounting debts and damage to crops due to the August floods, a 49-year-old farmer from Thrissur district allegedly killed himself on Friday, taking the total number of farmer deaths in Kerala in the last two months to nine.
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Monsoon This Year Brings Relief For Farmers In Karnataka's Mandya
Mandya district in Karnataka is the region that has seen the highest number of farmer suicides in the state over the past few years. This year, the monsoon has been generous so far in southern Karnataka -- and farmers in Mandya are more hopeful than they have been in years
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How Many Industrialists Committed Suicides, Asks Anna Hazare
Social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday sought to know the number of industrialists committing suicide in the country and claimed that the farmers doing the same was 12 lakh in the last 22 years.
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3 Farmers Commit Suicide In 24 Hours In Madhya Pradesh
Three farmers have ended their lives in Madhya Pradesh in the last 24 hours, taking the number of farmer suicides in the state in the last week to five.
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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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After Tamil Nadu, Gujarat Lawmakers Come To Blows in Assembly
Lawmakers came to blows in the Gujarat assembly on Thursday after an angry argument on the number of farmer suicides turned violent between Congress and BJP legislators. The casualty list included a minister in the Vijay Rupani government and two Congress members.
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Kheelghatta In Karnataka: A Portrait Of A Village Struggling With Drought
Kheelghatta is a non-descript village with no ancient temples, famous people or tourist spots. There is nothing special about this village but it falls in Karnataka's Mandya - the district that saw the highest number of farmer suicides in Karnataka last year. With summer getting unusually harsh, people here are trying to cope with the heat and the ...
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Drought, Closure Of Factory Turn Sugarcane Farmers Bitter In Karnataka
Mandya is the sugarcane belt of Karnataka, at least in good years. But in 2015, the district saw the highest number of farmer suicides in the state.
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Amravati Awaits Fund Disbursal to Make Farmers Debt-Free
The Amravati district, infamous for high number of farmers' suicides, is awaiting disbursal of funds allocated by Maharashtra government under a scheme to make those farmers debt-free who have taken loans from private money lenders.
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Maharashtra to Launch Mental Health Scheme to Curb Farmers Suicides
In the wake of rising cases of farmers' suicides, Maharashtra Government has decided to launch a mental health scheme aimed at bringing down the number of deaths due to the agrarian crisis.
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After Another Farmer Suicide in Karnataka, a House of Darkness for This Family
Karnataka has not traditionally been seen as a state with a large number of farmer suicides. But this year has been unusual, and the month of July saw 188 deaths in the state. Many were in debt as sugar factories stopped payments, fall in prices and exorbitant interest rates by moneylenders have forced farmers to take the extreme step.
