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1,023 Marathwada Farmers Died by Suicide in 2022, Up From 887 in 2021
Over the past few years, the region has seen both excess rain and drought-like conditions, making it more challenging for farmers to grow crops…
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Ban on Phosphorus Paste in Tamil Nadu!
Extremely dangerous pesticides that are harmful to both humans and animals have been banned from sale, stocking, display, and use for 60 days in the state.…
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Farmer’s Suicides Increases by 19 percent in Andhra Pradesh: Report
According to the research, after Maharashtra (4,064 farmer suicides) and Karnataka (2,169), AP ranked third in terms of farmer suicides in 2021 with 1,065 suicides.…
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RTI Report: 2,498 Farmers Committed Suicide in 11 Months
Despite the government's debt waiver schemes and other similar schemes created by the state government to benefit farmers, a total of 2,498 farmers have died in Maharashtra.…
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Three Farmers Committed Suicide in West Bengal After Crop Damage Due to Cyclone Jawad
On Sunday, three farmers were discovered dead in West Bengal's rice cultivating district Purba Bardhaman, over the last two days, police said. According to the family of the deceased farmers, they committed suicide after Cyclone Jawad's ill-timed rain destroyed their potato and paddy plants.…
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Punjab Cotton Farmers Committing Suicide Due To Crop Damages; Families Seeks Compensation
Meanwhile, Mohan Singh Chathewala of BKU (Ugrahan) has asked that the state government compensate Jaspal Singh's family with Rs 10 lakh. He also requested that one of his family members get a government job.…
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“Harvest”: A Poem on Farmers
What is the measure of a farmer’s life—his boundless love, his hard-work, or, perhaps, merely the rate of potatoes?…
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A Farmer in Uttar Pradesh Commits Suicide Due to Inability to Sell Sugarcane
Seeing his sugarcane standing still in the field with no avenues for a rewarding sale, a farmer named Om Pal Singh, 55, hangs himself to death from a tree in Muzaffarnagar’s Sisauli. Om Pal had not paid his sugarcane dues since February and was going…
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Beware. Because this killed farmers in Maharashtra
In a recent tragedy in Yavatmal district, 18 farmers have lost their lives and 400 other are struggling with the side effects. And all of this just in an effort to grow food for us. The casualties has been reported due to pesticide inhalation while…
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