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It seems finance minister P Chidambaram's loan-waiver Union budget has failed to stem the suicides in Vidarbha.
As many as 14 farmers of the agrarian crisis-hit region have committed suicide in the past three days, taking the toll to 61 after the Rs 60,000 crore farm loan waiver was announced. read more »
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As many as 14 farmers of the agrarian crisis-hit region have committed suicide in the past three days, taking the toll to 61 after the Rs 60,000 crore farm loan waiver was announced. read more »
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Kadegaon and Tasgaon have, respectively, seen five and four grape-growing farmers commit suicide over the past year. Their deaths add to a deadly tally of 70-odd suicides by grape growers over the past two years — a bizarre juxtaposition to the celebratory enthusiasm of the local politicians.
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With suicides by debt-ridden farmers continuing unabated, Kisan Coordination Committee (KCC) has come out with a "novel plan" to "bid goodbye" to debt by dumping loan documents in the sea here on the eve of the new year.
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Claiming that its neem plantation campaign in the Vidarbha region of Maharasthra has helped in bringing down the suicide rate among farmers, the Neem Foundation on Tuesday said it planned to extend the scheme across the country
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Nearly 1,50,000 Indian farmers committed suicide in nine years from 1997 to 2005, official data show. While the suicides occurred in many States, nearly two-thirds of such deaths were concentrated in five States where just a third of the country’s population lives. This means that farm suicides occurred in these (mainly cash crop) regions with appalling intensity.
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That’s not the Sena-BJP’s conclusion but a scathing indictment by the party’s own committee set up to investigate farmers’ suicides.
The state government machinery was not even inclined to understand the plight of the cotton farmers, the report said. read more »
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The state government machinery was not even inclined to understand the plight of the cotton farmers, the report said. read more »
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With a spate of suicides by farmers due to unscrupulous moneylenders, a central bank panel has called for their compulsory registration with flexibility to state governments in fixing the maximum interest rate.
Accordingly, the group has suggested a set of conditions in the pacts between the banks, financial institutions and accredited loan providers, as also some safeguard measures like enablin read more »
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There seems no respite to the suicides of farmers in Vidarbha, despite Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh claiming a drop in farmers suicide case.
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The spate of farmers suicides in crisis-ridden Vidarbha of Maharashtra has drastically come down this year, the State Government has claimed.
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