Farmer suicides in Maharashtra | Ploughing through the pain
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Farmer suicides in Maharashtra | Ploughing through the pain

The Hindu  

Trigger warning: the following article has references to suicide. Data, debt, death Veteran journalist and author P. Sainath, who runs the media website, People’s Archive of Rural India, says the number of farmer suicides could be significantly understated. Last year, a ‘classified’ report compiled by Sunil Kendrekar, the then Divisional Commissioner of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, found that about one lakh farmers in the Marathwada region were contemplating suicide because of pressures from mounting debt. The cycle never ends,” says Alse, adding that banks, including rural and cooperative ones, check farmers’ credit score, which he says is “most ironic”. “We are giving crop loans at ₹1 premium, and National Disaster Response Force and State Disaster Response Force compensation for crop damage due to unseasonal rain,” says Munde, who hails from Beed district.

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Farmer who attempted suicide at Shambhu border dies at Patiala hospital: Report
5 days, 10 hours ago

Farmer who attempted suicide at Shambhu border dies at Patiala hospital: Report

Hindustan Times  

A 57-year-old farmer, who allegedly attempted suicide at the Shambhu border during the farmers' protest on December 14, died at the Government Rajindra Hospital on Wednesday, reported news agency PTI. Ranjodh Singh reportedly took his own life as he was troubled by the deteriorating health of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal. Ranjodh Singh, who hails from Ratanheri village in Ludhiana …

Telangana: Teacher Working for Farmers in Distress Wants Sops to Cover Tenants
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana: Teacher Working for Farmers in Distress Wants Sops to Cover Tenants

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In the heart of Telangana, where lush fields mask a growing crisis, government school teacher Puli Raju, 52, has become an unexpected ray of hope for countless families. His mission is to ensure government schemes include tenant farmers, who are disproportionately affected by borewell failures and systemic neglect. Raju, a teacher from Etigadda Kistapur village in Toguta mandal of …

557 farmers ended lives in six months this year in Maharashtra's Amravati: Govt report
5 months, 1 week ago

557 farmers ended lives in six months this year in Maharashtra's Amravati: Govt report

The Hindu  

As many as 557 farmers have died by suicide in five districts under the Amravati administrative division of Maharashtra between January and June this year, an official report said. A report prepared by the Amravati divisional commissionerate said 557 farmers ended their lives in the division from January to June this year. ‘Serious issue’ Reacting to the figures mentioned in …

557 farmers died by suicide in first half of 2024 in Maharashtra's Amravati division: Govt report
5 months, 2 weeks ago

557 farmers died by suicide in first half of 2024 in Maharashtra's Amravati division: Govt report

New Indian Express  

AMRAVATI: As many as 557 farmers have died by suicide in five districts under the Amravati administrative division of Maharashtra between January and June this year, an official report said. A report prepared by the Amravati divisional commissionerate said a total of 557 farmers died by suicide in the division from January to June in 2024. Reacting to the figures …

One-third of all 2022 suicides were of daily wage earners, farmers: NCRB report
1 year ago

One-third of all 2022 suicides were of daily wage earners, farmers: NCRB report

The Hindu  

India reported a total of over 1.7 lakh suicides in 2022, nearly one-third of whom were daily wage earners, agricultural labourers, and farmers, according to the National Crime Record Bureau’s Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India 2022 report. The latest Crime in India report showed an overall increase in crimes and atrocities committed upon Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes persons, …

Karnataka farmers have suffered loss of Rs 30,000 cr due to drought this year: CM Siddaramaiah
1 year, 2 months ago

Karnataka farmers have suffered loss of Rs 30,000 cr due to drought this year: CM Siddaramaiah

India TV News  

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah stated on Sunday that the farmers in the state have suffered a total loss of Rs 30,000 crore due to drought this year. As per the National Disaster Response Fund norms, we have sought Rs 4,860 crore from the Union government and the Central team has visited the drought-hit areas," Siddaramaiah said addressing people during the …

Karnataka: 1,219 farmers dies by suicide in 18 months due to crop loss caused by drought
1 year, 2 months ago

Karnataka: 1,219 farmers dies by suicide in 18 months due to crop loss caused by drought

India TV News  

In yet another tragic incident, a farmer in Karnataka’s Chikkamagaluru district took his own life on Monday. Farmer had a loan of Rs 3 lakh According to the police, Naik, was residing in Lingadahalli, Kadur taluk. 1,219 farmers have committed suicide According to officials, in Karnataka, a total of 1,219 farmers have lost their lives in the past 18 months …

Maharashtra: Contentious Report Coda Takes Over Debate on Farmer Suicides
1 year, 3 months ago

Maharashtra: Contentious Report Coda Takes Over Debate on Farmer Suicides

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 02, 2023 18:21 IST - 8 MINS READ On July 31, 2022, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde chaired a regional review meeting in Aurangabad in which many MLAs raised the serious issue of the increase in farmer suicides in the region. Maharashtra Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Anil Bhaidas Patil, in a written reply to the Assembly on …

Maha's Marathwada Sees 483 Farmer Suicides Between Jan 1 and June 30 This Year; Beed Tops List
1 year, 4 months ago

Maha's Marathwada Sees 483 Farmer Suicides Between Jan 1 and June 30 This Year; Beed Tops List

News 18  

A total of 483 farmers have committed suicide in the first six months of this year in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region, including a high of 92 deaths in June, a state revenue department official said on Monday. Beed district accounted for 128 of the 483 deaths, followed by 90 in Osmanabad and 89 in Nanded, as per a report from the …

Climate change is causing increase in farmer suicides in India
1 year, 7 months ago

Climate change is causing increase in farmer suicides in India

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Climate change is making agriculture an extremely risky, potentially dangerous and loss-making endeavour for farmers, and it’s increasing their …

Watch | Why are farmers in Maharashtra taking their own lives?
1 year, 8 months ago

Watch | Why are farmers in Maharashtra taking their own lives?

The Hindu  

Watch | Why are farmers in Maharashtra taking their own lives? On an average, eight farmers end their lives every day in the State as they are unable to repay the loans taken from private money lenders and banks due to crop loss and falling crop prices. According to the data provided by the Maharashtra government, 1,023 farmers have ended …

The half-sickle women of Maharashtra soldier on after death by suicide of their farmer husbands
1 year, 9 months ago

The half-sickle women of Maharashtra soldier on after death by suicide of their farmer husbands

The Hindu  

March 24, 2023 01:32 am | Updated March 25, 2023 01:00 pm IST Trigger warning: the following article contains references to suicide; please avoid reading if you are disturbed by the subject. “Our loans were adding up to nearly ₹5 lakh,” says Ms. Renuka, adding that he had taken these over five years to grow cotton and bajri on their …

Farm suicides have come down, says Shobha Karandlaje
1 year, 9 months ago

Farm suicides have come down, says Shobha Karandlaje

The Hindu  

The number of farmers suicides has come down after the BJP came to power at the Centre and in the State, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje said on Sunday. Addressing a rally of farmers and women in Raibag in Belagavi district, she said that farmers suicides reached a peak during the Congress regime. “The …

Take more steps to prevent farmer suicides, Revanth to KCR
1 year, 11 months ago

Take more steps to prevent farmer suicides, Revanth to KCR

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Alleging that 7,069 farmers had committed suicide in the state since 2014, TPCC chief A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday demanded that tenant farmers be given due recognition in all government schemes as almost 80 percent of those who ended their lives were from this category. In an open letter addressed to Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, the Congress leader …

Farmer suicides in Telangana drop drastically
2 years ago

Farmer suicides in Telangana drop drastically

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The number of farmers and cultivators committing suicide in Telangana fell by about 59 per cent from 2017 till 2021, but the state still accounted for over 10 per cent of such incidents nationwide during that period, the Centre said on Friday. Presenting the data to Parliament, the Union agriculture and farmers welfare ministry said that from 2017 till …

122 Farmers' Suicides in West Bengal District, RTI Query Reveals; Mismatch in State Data Given to NCRB
2 years, 3 months ago

122 Farmers' Suicides in West Bengal District, RTI Query Reveals; Mismatch in State Data Given to NCRB

News 18  

A West Bengal district, Paschim Midnapore, alone reported 122 farm-related suicides officially last year, according to data revealed by the state government in response to an RTI query. However, the same year, the National Crime Records Bureau data stated that West Bengal reported “zero suicides of farmers/cultivators as well as agricultural labourers”. Information provided by the Bengal government to the …

Maharashtra: Heavy rain, floods damage crops on 3.80 lakh hectares of land
2 years, 4 months ago

Maharashtra: Heavy rain, floods damage crops on 3.80 lakh hectares of land

Live Mint  

A new report based on a preliminary survey states that crops on nearly 3.80 lakh hectares of land owned by over six lakh farmers have been damaged in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra in the wake of the state receiving excessive rains and floods so far this year. "As per the primary survey, 6.23 lakh farmers owning 3,78,866.19 hectares of …

Depressed Over Low Wheat Yield, Punjab Farmer Dies by Suicide
2 years, 8 months ago

Depressed Over Low Wheat Yield, Punjab Farmer Dies by Suicide

News 18  

Depressed over low yield of wheat this season, a 40-year-old farmer allegedly died by suicide after consuming a poisonous substance in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district, police said on Saturday. Deputy Superintendent of Police Narinder Singh said a suicide note was recovered from Manjit Singh in which he stated that he was taking the extreme step due to low yield of wheat …

Steep decline in farmers’ suicide in Telangana: Tomar
2 years, 8 months ago

Steep decline in farmers’ suicide in Telangana: Tomar

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Centre on Tuesday informed Parliament that farmers' suicides in Telangana witnessed a steep decline since 2015. Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar gave a written reply in Lok Sabha to this effect to the question raised by Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president and MP A. Revanth Reddy. Revanth Reddy sought to know the details of the number of …

Vidarbha continues to record higher farmer suicides
2 years, 11 months ago

Vidarbha continues to record higher farmer suicides

The Hindu  

January 22, 2022 09:21 pm | Updated 09:21 pm IST - Mumbai Maharashtra recorded 2,489 farmer suicides from January 1 to November 30, 2021, and 2,547 farmer suicides in 2020, with over 50% deaths coming from the State’s Vidarbha region during both years. According to the information obtained by activist Jitendra Ghadge, after an application filed under the Right to …

The human cost of India’s yearlong farmers’ protest
3 years ago

The human cost of India’s yearlong farmers’ protest

Al Jazeera  

Farmers’ unions say at least nine farmers died by suicide among a total of nearly 700 deaths, leaving families distraught and in debt. Fatehgarh Sahib, India – On the morning of November 10, the tall body of Gurpreet Singh was found hanging from a tree at Singhu outside Indian capital New Delhi, where thousands of farmers have been camping for …

Suicide rate up in 2020, Maharashtra tops the list with near 20,000 cases
3 years, 1 month ago

Suicide rate up in 2020, Maharashtra tops the list with near 20,000 cases

India TV News  

India recorded 153,052 suicides- an average of 418 daily- in 2020, according to the latest central government data. Majority of suicides, 19,909 in total, were reported in Maharashtra followed by 16,883 in Tamil Nadu, 14,578 in Madhya Pradesh, 13,103 in West Bengal, and 12,259 in Karnataka accounting for 13 per cent, 11 per cent, 9.5 per cent, 8.6 per cent …

UP Farmer Dies by Suicide Near Protest Site at Delhi-Ghazipur Border
3 years, 11 months ago

UP Farmer Dies by Suicide Near Protest Site at Delhi-Ghazipur Border

News 18  

While farmers continued their agitation against the Centre’s farm reform bills amid freezing temperatures in Delhi and adjoining areas, a middle-aged farmer allegedly died by suicide after he hanged himself in a toilet near the protest site at Ghazipur border. Expressing grief over the incident, Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said such incidents are taking place because the government …

Crops Washed Away by Heavy Rains, Maharashtra Farmer Dies by Suicide in Marathwada Region
4 years, 2 months ago

Crops Washed Away by Heavy Rains, Maharashtra Farmer Dies by Suicide in Marathwada Region

News 18  

Aurangabad: A 30-year-old farmer allegedly died by suicide by hanging himself in Marathwada region of Maharashtra on Friday, after his crop got washed away due to recent heavy rains, a police official said. "A suicide note was recovered from the spot, which said that he was taking the extreme steps as his soybean crop got washed away due to heavy …

Many States, UTs Not Providing Details of Farmer Suicides: MHA Tells Rajya Sabha
4 years, 3 months ago

Many States, UTs Not Providing Details of Farmer Suicides: MHA Tells Rajya Sabha

News 18  

The government on Monday said many states and Union Territories have not provided details of farmer suicides and hence, the national data on the causes of suicide in the farming sector is "untenable" and cannot be published. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said as informed by the National Crime Records Bureau, many states and UTs have …

Suicide In India: 381 Suicides Reported Daily in 2019 on Average
4 years, 3 months ago

Suicide In India: 381 Suicides Reported Daily in 2019 on Average

The Quint  

A majority of the suicides were reported in Maharashtra, followed by Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka accounting for 13.6 percent, 9.7 percent, 9.1 percent, 9.0 per cent and 8.1 percent of total suicides, respectively. These five states together accounted for 49.5 percent of the total suicides reported in the country. Drug abuse, marriage related issues, love affairs, …

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