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Three more Maharashtra farmers end life
Sunday November 11, 2012 06:38:38 PM,
IANS
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Nagpur: As Prithviraj
Chavan completed two years as Maharashtra chief minister, the
number of farmer suicides this year rose to 624 with three more
distressed peasants ending their lives Sunday, an activist said
here.
"Despite Dhanteras and the upcoming Diwali, and Prithviraj Chavan
completing two years in office today (Sunday), the gloom and
despair persists among the debt-trapped farmers of the Vidarbha
region. Three more such farmers have chosen to end their lives,"
Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti chief Kishore Tiwari told IANS.
The victims are Mangesh More of Virud village in Chandrapur,
Champat Shendre of Junapani village in Wardha and Vasant Rathode
of Kinhala village in Yavatmal, he said.
Chavan Saturday said that among the highlights of his two years in
office was securing a Rs.2,000 crore aid package for the
debt-ridden farming community.
The chief reason for farmers committing suicide is the failure of
the main cash crops, biotech cotton in 4.20 million hectares and
soybean in 1.80 hectares due to erratic rains and pest attacks for
the third consecutive year, Tiwari said.
Besides crop failures, Tiwari said the cultivation costs had
almost doubled due to the hike in prices of fuel, seeds,
fertilizers, pesticides and labour.
"Due to these factors, farmers have been compelled to offload
their produce at virtually throwaway prices leading to heavy
losses," he said.
"The government must provide an immediate bail-out, restore credit
facilities, make provisions for the next cultivation season and
until then arrange for food and health security to the farming
community," Tiwari demanded.
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