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In Drought-Struck Odisha, Aid Fails To Stop Farmers Suicides
After her husband Abhimanyu, a 52-year-old farmer in Odisha's Khurda district, committed suicide by consuming poison last month, Pratima Baliarsingh is yet to recover from the trauma.
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Prime Minister's address to the Korean CEOs
Investment from South Korea is a "priority" for India, visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday, adding that the government was taking "proactive" steps to improve the business climate and move forward with the POSCO mega steel plant project in Orissa that has been plagued by farmer protests.
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11 new farmer suicides haunt this part of Orissa
In a small village in Orissa's Sambalpur district, in a small house, a family looks to its neighbours for support. 61-year-old Shukla Chand killed himself by drinking pesticide. In this part of Western Orissa, this has become a frighteningly familiar story. Since November, 11 farmers from here have killed themselves.Farmers have been catapulted fro...
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Orissa: Congress MP on hunger strike seeking loan waiver for farmers
Demanding loan waiver for small and marginal farmers hit by unseasonal rain, an OrissaCongress MP Pradip Majhi launched a hunger-strike near the state secretariat with his supporters."The government must announce loan waiver upto Rs 50,000 as the unseasonal rain has broken the economic backbone of small and marginal farmers," Majhi, who is also the...
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Farmers desperate as Orissa awaits monsoon
Farmers in Orissa are craning their necks hoping to catch sight of rain clouds.It has been an unusually dry monsoon so far and that doesn't spell good news for either crops or farmers in the Orissa region. Wilted seedlings and parched fields are an unusual sight in July.In Orissa, the paddy crop is drying, waiting for the monsoons to hi...
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Orissa: Loans driving farmers to suicide
In 2009, 43 farmers in Orissa committed suicide. They were all small farmers who couldn't access institutional loan and had to borrow from microfinance NGOs at an exorbitant rate of interest.
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Orissa tragedy: Once displaced, now suicidal
Over 40 farmers in Orissa engaged in rain-fed farming ended their lives between September and December last year following a total crop loss because of a bad monsoon.
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Farmer suicide on the rise in Orissa
Forty-three farmers killed themselves towards the end of 2009. Nearly half of them were from Western Orissa.
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'Hirakud dam is failing, farmers are killing themselves'
Dozens of farmers have committed suicide in Orissa in the past one year as the Hirakud dam is no longer serving its purpose, says a new study that warns of a grimmer situation in the coming days if urgent steps are not taken.
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In Drought-Struck Odisha, Aid Fails To Stop Farmers Suicides
After her husband Abhimanyu, a 52-year-old farmer in Odisha's Khurda district, committed suicide by consuming poison last month, Pratima Baliarsingh is yet to recover from the trauma.
-
Prime Minister's address to the Korean CEOs
Investment from South Korea is a "priority" for India, visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday, adding that the government was taking "proactive" steps to improve the business climate and move forward with the POSCO mega steel plant project in Orissa that has been plagued by farmer protests.
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11 new farmer suicides haunt this part of Orissa
In a small village in Orissa's Sambalpur district, in a small house, a family looks to its neighbours for support. 61-year-old Shukla Chand killed himself by drinking pesticide. In this part of Western Orissa, this has become a frighteningly familiar story. Since November, 11 farmers from here have killed themselves.Farmers have been catapulted fro...
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Orissa: Congress MP on hunger strike seeking loan waiver for farmers
Demanding loan waiver for small and marginal farmers hit by unseasonal rain, an OrissaCongress MP Pradip Majhi launched a hunger-strike near the state secretariat with his supporters."The government must announce loan waiver upto Rs 50,000 as the unseasonal rain has broken the economic backbone of small and marginal farmers," Majhi, who is also the...
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Farmers desperate as Orissa awaits monsoon
Farmers in Orissa are craning their necks hoping to catch sight of rain clouds.It has been an unusually dry monsoon so far and that doesn't spell good news for either crops or farmers in the Orissa region. Wilted seedlings and parched fields are an unusual sight in July.In Orissa, the paddy crop is drying, waiting for the monsoons to hi...
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Orissa: Loans driving farmers to suicide
In 2009, 43 farmers in Orissa committed suicide. They were all small farmers who couldn't access institutional loan and had to borrow from microfinance NGOs at an exorbitant rate of interest.
-
Orissa tragedy: Once displaced, now suicidal
Over 40 farmers in Orissa engaged in rain-fed farming ended their lives between September and December last year following a total crop loss because of a bad monsoon.
-
Farmer suicide on the rise in Orissa
Forty-three farmers killed themselves towards the end of 2009. Nearly half of them were from Western Orissa.
-
'Hirakud dam is failing, farmers are killing themselves'
Dozens of farmers have committed suicide in Orissa in the past one year as the Hirakud dam is no longer serving its purpose, says a new study that warns of a grimmer situation in the coming days if urgent steps are not taken.
