Farmers’ suicide rates soar above the rest Suicide rates among Indian farmers were a chilling 47 per cent higher than they were for the rest of the population in 2011. [...] May 18, 2013
Over 2,000 fewer farmers every day There are nearly 15 million farmers (‘Main’ cultivators) fewer than there were in 1991. Over 7.7 million less since [...] May 2, 2013
Unwilling parents, unwary orphans Jayalakshmi Palem (in the framed photograph) was 12 years old when she committed suicide on learning she would have to drop [...] July 20, 2010