Farmer Suicide in Orissa
In the last three months 39 farmers have committed suicide in different districts of Orissa. They are pushed into an highly external input dependent chemical intensive agriculture. This has made their net agriculture income negative and forced them to seek loan from formal and non formal sectors. The pressure generated out of not being able to repay the loan took the lives of the people who feed rest of us–the farmers. But the government insists that they died because of family problems.Suicides has nothing to do with the crop failure. How many more farmers need to commit suicide before the government wakes up? In Orissa on an average 328 farmers commit suicide every year.
We have compiled the information of suicides. Please find the compiled information of farmer suicide in 3 last three months in Orissa and please contact us for more information on it.
