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Farmer Suicides in India

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Feb 05, 2013
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On January 14, during Makar Sankranti, a major festival, when India's farming community traditionally conducts elaborate rituals to celebrate a bountiful harvest, two young farmers committed suicide in the Vidarbha region of southern Maharashtra.

Caught in the complex interplay of spiraling debt, failed crops and governmental apathy, cotton farmers Ramu…

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