Farmer Suicides

Farmers’ suicides, reports of commissions and academic institutions on these suicides and related issues:

• Farm Suicides: A 12-year Saga
• Nearly 2 lakh farm suicides since 1997
• The dull days of White Gold
• Over 16,600 farmer suicides in 2007
• Of loan waivers and tax waivers
• 4,750 rural bank branches closed down in 15 years
• 1.5 lakh farm suicides in 1997-2005
• Vidarbha’s one-litre-per-cow package
• Farmer’s diet worse than a convict’s
• Farming: It’s what they do
• When farmers die
• Falling farm incomes, growing inequities