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A government resolution (GR) issued by the home department on September 16 stated that it was necessary to probe the reasons behind the farmers suicides so as to give compensation to the family.

RTI finds discrepancies in farmer suicide figures

The data also raises questions, as a number of suicides were more due to family problems and alcoholism than debt.

16 Oct 2017 12:59 AM IST

Amravati division has recorded the most suicides, witnessing 907 in the last 10 months.

Waiver failed to reduce deaths

2,414 farmer suicides recorded this year till October 31.

23 Nov 2017 2:40 AM IST

A government resolution (GR) issued by the home department on September 16 stated that it was necessary to probe the reasons behind the farmers suicides so as to give compensation to the family.

Probe farm suicides in a month: Maharashtra

Maha tells cops to complete investigations as it will help in providing speedy compensation.

18 Sept 2017 1:27 AM IST

The two were taken to the district hospital, where doctors declared them brought dead, police said. (photo: Representational)

In separate incidents, two farmers commit suicide in Maharashtra's...

In both incidents they were facing loan repayment-related problems.

30 July 2018 7:06 PM IST

Marathwada has seen 155 farmers suicide till March 4 this year.

Maharashtra: 639 farmers killed selves between March and May this year

State Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil gave this information in Legislative Council in reply to question by Oppn...

14 July 2018 7:33 PM IST

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh (Photo: PTI)

Amarinder Singh hits out at govt over farmer waiver

With loan amounts of many farmers more than what his government was currently waiving off, their plight continued to be...

25 Jan 2019 12:05 AM IST

The prosecutors told the court on Tuesday that Donald Thurman had confessed to the crime and it ordered he be held without bail. (Reprewsentational Image)

BJP regime saw more farmer suicides

The data also pointed out that Maharashtra recorded 11,377 farmer suicides in the first decade of the 21st century 2001...

3 Feb 2020 4:37 AM IST

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5 March 2020 1:10 AM IST

Some 60 per cent of Indians who still depend financially on farming struggle with debt, bankruptcy and endemic suicide. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Mohan Guruswamy | Suicides are no indication of India's farmers'...

Suicide is a matter of psychology, and not of economics no matter how tempting that may be to exaggerate an issue

9 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Unless there is a complete change of mindset, that we accept we are predominantly an agriculture based nation, and always have been, the malaise will continue.

Is Indian agriculture an asset or a liability?

The total NPA s in the country is estimated to be over Rs 10 lakh crores...of which the farm sector is approximately...

23 Dec 2018 5:05 AM IST

The state had approved the loan waiver to the benefit of 47.88 lakh farmers last December.

Indigenous seeds can end farmer suicides

People are rendered redundant, disposable, useless in the very logic of the fossilised paradigm.

22 March 2018 1:04 AM IST

BJP National President Amit Shah during a roadshow in Shivamogga, Karnataka. (Photo: PTI)

Farmer suicides on rise in Cong-ruled states: Amit Shah

In Karntaka over 3500 farmers have committed suicide in Karnataka over the last four years.

28 March 2018 1:12 AM IST