BRS Accused of Downplaying Figures of Farmers' Suicides
9 months, 1 week ago

BRS Accused of Downplaying Figures of Farmers' Suicides

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Farmer organisations are castigating the BRS regime for having systematically playing down the figures with regard to farmers dying by suicide across the state, after the launch of the Rythu Bhima life insurance scheme on August 15, 2018. The BRS government had abandoned the process of enumerating farmer deaths and verification to settle family debts mandated under GO 194, after bringing in Rythu Bhima. The woes of the family of K. Sreenu, 38, from Papakkapalli village of Jammikunta mandal of Karimnagar district, who ended his life on June 2, 2023, illustrated the lack of government support for tenant farmers. This left 75 per cent of the real cultivators left out of the records.” “The reasons behind the death of farmers are spurious seeds, lack of institutional credit, compensation during natural calamities, lack of MSP for crops and wrong export, import policies which distort prices of farm produce,” Malla Reddy said. Fake seeds, which fail to give proper yield, are also driving farmers to suicides.” Farmer suicide data as provided by the BRS government.

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Unable to repay loans, farmer ends life in Telangana
18 hours, 22 minutes ago

Unable to repay loans, farmer ends life in Telangana

New Indian Express  

MAHABUBABAD: Allegedly unable to bear the pressure of mounting debts, a 38-year-old farmer died by suicide in Seerole mandal on Sunday. Police said the victim, Thejavath Sreenu, a resident of Sakaram Naik Thanda, consumed pesticide at his agricultural field the evening before. Facing crop losses and struggling to repay the loans, Sreenu became increasingly distressed. Seerole Sub-inspector Ch Nagesh stated …

Tejasvi booked for ‘fake news’ on farmer suicide
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Tejasvi booked for ‘fake news’ on farmer suicide

Hindustan Times  

Haveri district police on Friday filed a first information report against Tejasvi Surya, Member of Parliament from the Bharatiya Janata Party representing Bengaluru South, and editors of two Kannada online news portals, accusing them of “circulating misinformation”. On Friday, the FIR was filed by the Cybercrime, Economic, and Narcotic Offences police of Haveri following a complaint from Sunil Huchannavar, a …

Haveri farmer's suicide due to crop loss, not Waqf notice: Police
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Haveri farmer's suicide due to crop loss, not Waqf notice: Police

Deccan Chronicle  

Haveri: Haveri district Superintendent of Police Anshu Kumar has clarified that the suicide of a farmer in Haveri two years ago was due to crop loss and debt, not related to any Waqf property notice. “A media report alleged that Rudrappa, a farmer from Harangiri village, took his life after discovering his 4-acre farmland had been marked as Waqf property. …

Farmers bodies seek proper enumeration of farmers suicides
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Farmers bodies seek proper enumeration of farmers suicides

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Farmers’ bodies are seeking revival of the earlier system when a three-member committee used to visit mandals and districts to determine the reasons behind farmers’ deaths by suicide. After Rythu Bima was introduced, the system of verification at the mandal level by a team comprising a tahsildar, mandal agriculture officer and a sub-inspector as mandated by GO 194 to …

KTR attributes “farmer first” policies of BRS for drop in ryots’ suicides in TG
5 months, 4 weeks ago

KTR attributes “farmer first” policies of BRS for drop in ryots’ suicides in TG

The Hindu  

The biggest achievement of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi government led by K. Chandrasekhar Rao till recently was its “farmer first” policy through which the government had several initiatives for the welfare of farmers and development of the agriculture sector, working president of the BRS K.T. All such initiatives have resulted in bringing down the distress deaths and suicides of farmers …

Unending woes of Telangana’s farmers
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Unending woes of Telangana’s farmers

The Hindu  

Exactly a month ago, Telangana farmer Itharaveni Rajesham succumbed to heat stroke while perched atop a small heap of 38 quintals of paddy, waiting for his turn to sell it at a government-run procurement centre in Ragampeta village, 28 km from the Karimnagar district headquarters. “He was visibly exhausted, shuttling between his house and the procurement centre to sell his …

Farm Unions Call BRS Farmer Suicide Data a Bluff
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Farm Unions Call BRS Farmer Suicide Data a Bluff

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With elections round the corner the issues of farmers have taken the centrestage in the state.With the state staring at drought and groundwater levels plummeting, the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi, which was recent;y trounced in the Assembly elections, is trying champion the cause of farmers by alleging a spike in farmer suicides due to the four-month-old Revanth Reddy government. …

Suicides by Farmers: Telangana HC Awaits Response from State
8 months, 1 week ago

Suicides by Farmers: Telangana HC Awaits Response from State

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Advocate-general A. Sudarshan Reddy on Monday sought time to get instructions from the state government on the rising incidences of suicides by farmers. Take recourse to Customs Act, HC tells petitioner and officials A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court directed the parties to seek recourse to the Customs Act for release of 932 grams of seized gold. …

BRS demands ₹25,000 per acre relief to ryots who suffered crop loss this season
8 months, 4 weeks ago

BRS demands ₹25,000 per acre relief to ryots who suffered crop loss this season

The Hindu  

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi has demanded that the Congress government in Telangana announce a relief of ₹25,000 per acre to farmers whose crops have withered and were abandoned due to lack of water for irrigation despite efforts to protect crops by sinking new borewells as also those suffered crop loss due to untimely rain, hails and gales. Several farmers of …

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 …

Farmer's Suicide Note Leads to Controversy
1 year, 5 months ago

Farmer's Suicide Note Leads to Controversy

Deccan Chronicle  

Anantapur: A farmer's suicide note blaming Chief Minister Y.S. The farmer, Subba Reddy, from Tudumulapalli in Khazipet mandal of Kadapa district consumed pesticide in his fields on outskirts of the village on Thursday night and died. With Subba Reddy leaving a suicide note holding CM responsible for his death, the area revenue divisional officer released a statement saying the farmer …

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 …

Kin of farmers who died by suicide await compensation from the govt
1 year, 9 months ago

Kin of farmers who died by suicide await compensation from the govt

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The families of hundreds of farmers who died by suicide said they had been denied ex gratia compensation under Government Order 194, despite the police certifying in the investigation reports that the suicides were due to debt. Rythu Swarajya Vedika, a farmers’ forum, conducted a survey of cases of the final reports from the police for about 100 farmers …

Palla slams Bandi\'s claim of 10,000 farmer suicides in TS
1 year, 10 months ago

Palla slams Bandi\'s claim of 10,000 farmer suicides in TS

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Rythu Bandhu Samithi chairman and BRS MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy on Monday strongly refuted comments made by BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar that almost 10,000 farmers had committed suicide in the last eight years while the TRS was in power as a result of debt, a lack of MSP, and procurement issues. Speaking to media along with MLA …

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 …

RSV, HRF say farmers’ families denied mandated compensation
2 years, 4 months ago

RSV, HRF say farmers’ families denied mandated compensation

Deccan Chronicle  

TIRUPATI: Rythu Swarajya Vedika and Human Rights Forum have demanded that state government extend financial aid to families of farmers who have committed suicide but have not yet received financial compensation from the state as envisaged under G.O. A three-member fact-finding team comprising RSV state committee member B. Kondal, HRF state executive committee member K. Madan Sekhar and HRF’s AP …

Welfare schemes should cover tenant farmers: Uttam
2 years, 4 months ago

Welfare schemes should cover tenant farmers: Uttam

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Demanding that the welfare schemes should cover tenant farmers, Congress MP and former PCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy accused both the Telangana government and the BJP-led Union government of neglecting tenant farmers. The state Congress leader claimed that Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar responded to a question he asked in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday with a …

Compensation sought in farmer suicide cases
2 years, 7 months ago

Compensation sought in farmer suicide cases

Deccan Chronicle  

Nellore: Human Rights Forum on Wednesday advised AP government not to drag its feet but ensure effective implementation of its own G.O. A four-member team of Human Rights Forum, Rythu Swarajya Vedika and Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Political Front visited families of seven farmers who had committed suicide in five mandals – Marripadu, Atmakur, Sangam, Kodavaluru and Allur – in …

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 …

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 …

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