Sugar Farmer Suicide

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today flagged off 77 tractors for farm machinery banks set up in cooperative sugarcane and sugar mill societies.

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.

Death of farmers due to financial stress is being reported from the sugarcane growing areas of Karnataka. Pending dues in factories and low sugar prices this year have added to problems. At least 13 farmers have reportedly committed suicide in the last three weeks in Mandya region.

13 farmers have committed suicide in the last 20 days in the sugarcane belt of Mandya in Karnataka. Sugarcane prices have fallen and sugar factories have not been always been paying farmers for the crop they have taken.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Sunday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get pending payments of sugarcane farmers released and ensure that sugar mills get on with crushing in cane producing states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.

India's sugar belts continue to boil and situation turned ugly in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri today where protests erupted over the death of a farmer.

India's sugar belts are on the boil as anger and desperation spills out on the street as farmers agitate for a higher price for their cane.

A depressed sugarcane farmer on Wednesday committed suicide near the state secretariat here while protesting against non-payment of arrears by a sugar mill.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today flagged off 77 tractors for farm machinery banks set up in cooperative sugarcane and sugar mill societies.

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.

Death of farmers due to financial stress is being reported from the sugarcane growing areas of Karnataka. Pending dues in factories and low sugar prices this year have added to problems. At least 13 farmers have reportedly committed suicide in the last three weeks in Mandya region.

13 farmers have committed suicide in the last 20 days in the sugarcane belt of Mandya in Karnataka. Sugarcane prices have fallen and sugar factories have not been always been paying farmers for the crop they have taken.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Sunday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get pending payments of sugarcane farmers released and ensure that sugar mills get on with crushing in cane producing states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.

India's sugar belts continue to boil and situation turned ugly in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri today where protests erupted over the death of a farmer.

India's sugar belts are on the boil as anger and desperation spills out on the street as farmers agitate for a higher price for their cane.

A depressed sugarcane farmer on Wednesday committed suicide near the state secretariat here while protesting against non-payment of arrears by a sugar mill.