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Daily wage earners, housewives comprised 40% of suicide victims in 2018, shows NCRB data; fewer farmers ended lives as compared to 2016
Fp Staff •Of the 1,34,516 suicide victims in 2018, 26,589 were daily wagers (22.4 percent) and 22,937 were housewives (17.1 percent), data from the NCRB, the agency responsible for collecting and analysing crime data, revealed.
Two suicides, one tale: Maharashtra farmers' agonising wait for compensation after fury of August 2019 floods
Sanket Jain •Villages in western Maharashtra echo the same stories of mounting losses. Their homes and fields destroyed in the August 2019 floods, families face financial ruin and an increasingly desperate future.
NCRB 2016 data: Delayed NCRB report, added categories don't take away from grim reality of farmer suicides
Meena Menon •The death of so many farmers in the country, now close to 3.5 lakh, has not led to radical policy changes to revitalise the agriculture sector. The farmer is once again caught in the grip of uncertain rains and debt, with little hope on the horizon. And the suicides continue, even if the NCRB introduces new categories and delays its own reports.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slams Yogi Adityanath govt over farmers suicides in Uttar Pradesh, questions efficacy of loan waiver scheme
•Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hit out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over issues being faced by farmers and questioned the efficacy of farm and loan waiver schemes.
Over 1,500 farmers committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh in past 5 years, but ex-gratia paid in only 391 cases: Jagan Mohan Reddy
•Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday said 1,513 farmers had committed suicide in the state from 2014 to 2019, but only 391 families were paid ex-gratia.
Union Budget 2019: Will Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman be able to salvage the agriculture sector?
Rnb •With 50 percent of the population dependent on agricultural incomes—fully or partly—farm distress has the potential to pull down consumption,
Farm distress: Not just debt, small landholding and poor access to market are also killing farmers: Report
Yatishyadav •The NIRDPR cited poor implementation of agricultural marketing reforms and low reach of minimum support price (MSP), which was adding to the farmers' distress.
Despite ban, Indian farmers plant HTBT cotton; experts blame nexus between politicians, agro firms behind availability of illegal seed
Kanchan Srivastava •Cotton growers incurred hefty losses over the years as Monsanto’s pest-resistant varieties failed to meet its objectives, there is no clarity whether the HT cotton will benefit the farmers in long-run
Noisy scenes in Kerala Assembly over farmer suicides; Congress-led UDF stages walkout over demand for loan waiver
•The Congress-led UDF opposition Monday raised the issue of farmer suicides and urged the CPM-led LDF government to waive agriculture loans.
In Rajasthan, Congress faces farmers' ire over delay in loan waivers; risks conceding ground to BJP earned in 2018
Pragya Singh •Every five years then, anger and frustration determine Rajasthan’s voting behaviour–the incumbent is voted out, the Opposition is voted in.