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Crop failure impels Indian farmer suicidesNew Delhi (UPI) Jan 6, 2011 As more crops fail in India, the rate of suicides among farmers is climbing. More than 17,368 Indian farmers killed themselves in 2009, the worst figure for farm suicides in six years, data from the National Crime Records Bureau indicate. The suicides increased by 1,172 over the 2008 count of 16,196, bringing the total farm suicides since 1997 to 216,500. "Poverty has assaulted rural India," journalist Palagummi Sainath, an expert on rural poverty in India, told Britain's The Inde ... read more |
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