Reducing Farm Distress and Preventing Farmer Suicides
In recent years increasing distress of farmers has been reported from several parts of India leading in extreme cases to a large number of suicides by farmers. While many different…
Farmer’s Suicide
A Farmer’s Suicide That Could Have Been Prevented
In a country that has already heard about so many suicides by farmers, perhaps the recent suicide by one more farmer will not attract much attention, but nevertheless the extremely…
A Tractor That Brought Years of Debt for This Farmer, Ending with Suicide
Rameshwar purchased a tractor on loan basis in 2011. Till year 2024 he remained tense in various difficulties and complications relating to the paying back of this loan. When he…
On the Conditions of Workers and Peasants in India: What is to be done today?
In these dark times, the sun is shining on one thing: i.e. a powerful peasant movement in India led by the left! The successful peasant movement against the current right-wing…
Increase in suicides of farmers and farm labourers, and violence against women
In the past few years, the central government has made big claims of development for farmers and laborers, but the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau shows that…
Farmers’ Indebtedness Most Important Cause of Suicides
A very recent study on farmer suicides during 2000-2018 in six districts of Punjab has stated that as many as 88% of these were due to debts. This study by…
Farmer Suicides Big Crisis on Indian Agriculture …
It is also important to know the history of farmer suicide. And it would be logical to know that in the context of the state of Maharashtra. In 1990, The…
Farmers and Agricultural Labourers’ Suicides- Time for governments and society to wake up
Figures on suicides released by the National Crime Records Bureau on October 28, 2021 show that 10,677 people related to agricultural sector committed suicide in the country during 2020. Among…
Killing Ourselves
Recently I watched a film with the title “ Project Marathwada”. The story is about an old farmer from Nandurbar , a small town in Maharashtra. He wants to meet…
Women Farmers From Farm Suicide Families Demand Special Package
New Delhi, January 27th 2020: In a National Consultation co-organised by MahilaKisanAdhikaarManch (MAKAAM) and UN Women on the “Status of Women Farmers in Farm Suicide Families”, affected women demanded a…
How Farm Widows Are Leading Societal Change
The large swathes of cotton farms in Central India have been the epicentre of a global crisis that has gripped the rural population in crippling debts and driven thousands…
Farmers Suicides Soar On Freedom Anniversary
Even as India celebrated its 70th year of independence, the number of suicides of beleaguered farmers in Marathwada, the drought prone belt of Maharashtra, touched a new high. In…
A Therapy For India’s Suicidal Farmers
While debates continue to rage on reforming the agricultural sector to improve the economic conditions of farmer, there has till now recently been no attempt to focus on the likely…
Suicides Continue To Ravage Farmlands
At least 217 farmers have ended their life in the month following Maharashtra Government’s farm loan waiver announcement on June 2 this year.This numbers for the month of June equal…
A Grain of Truth: RCEP And The Corporate Hijack Of Indian Agriculture
The plight of farmers in India has been well documented. A combination of debt, economic liberalisation, subsidised imports, rising input costs and a shift to cash crops (including GM cotton)…
As Farmers Fight Back In India, Where Are We Headed?
I have a facebook group. It is called “Life in India is cheap, Damn cheap”. I started the group after seeing the death stunts of a circus group without any…
Healing India’s Suicidal Farmers
How many deaths will it take ‘til he knows That too many people have died The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, The answer is blowin’ in…
In Champaran’s Centenary, Indian Farmers Await Another Gandhi
This is the centenary year of the Champaran sayagraha (policy of passive political resistance) - the first experiment by Mahatma Gandhi of his epic philosophy .This tool was to…
Will Jantar Mantar Offer Any Solution To The Farm Crisis Of Tamilnadu
They are in Delhi for last 15 days for demanding compensation and relief as Cauvery water supply in Tamilnadu is drying up resulting in massive drought. Over 250 farmers have…
Farmlands ‘Developed’ A Bit More Into Farmer Graveyards In 2015
How does one deal with a 42% spike in suicides by farmers/cultivators in a country where “development” has been the buzzword for the last couple of years? If the question…
Curry Mixed With Demonetisation And A Pinch Of Pesticide
A week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation on November 8 , Varda Balayya, a 42-year-old farmer from Dharmaram village of Siddipet district in Telangana, was about to sell…
Demonetisation, Proverbial Last Nail In The Coffin Of Already Beleaguered Peasantry
Putting the cacophonous debate on the merits and demerits of demonetisation of Rs 500 and 1000 currency notes aside, there is no doubt over it having hit the farmers all…
Seeds Of Farmer’s Distress
Despite being the country with the second largest agricultural land in the world, hardly two fifth or forty percent of the agricultural land is irrigated. Also, even though the country…
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