Eight more farmers commit suicide-TIMES REPORTS

Eight more farmers commit suicide 18 Jul 2007, 0447 hrs IST,TNN SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Eight_farmers_commit_suicide_in_Nagpur/articleshow/2212522.cms NAGPUR: Eight more farmers committed suicide in the last 48 hours in cotton belt of Vidarbha taking the toll this year to 506, said Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti on Tuesday. Of the deceased, four were from Amravati district and identified as Bajirao Ingle of Gorkheda village, Waman Dewan from Deolwada, Janrao Warhade of Phiggaon, Suresh Pande of Valruli, two from Yavatmal — Eknath Kale of Korada village and Vikas Punwatkar of Ramwaki —, Pandurang Ingole of Wadavi village in Washim district and Shankar Mange of Sawara in Akola. VJAS president Kishore Tiwari attributed the fresh spate of suicides to reduction in credit outlay in the six affected districts by 40% by Nabard. A large number of farmers mainly in Amravati district had to incur extra expenditure as they had to undertake a sowing for the second time after heavy rains washed away their nascent crop, he added.

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Eight more farmers commit suicide

1 Comment:I earnestly appeal to leaders of the Corporate World - Tatas, Birlas, Infosys, Reliance, Wipro and others - to jointly come out with some concrete programme (with or without government support) to prevent poor farmers from committing suicide. I am sure with their vast resources of top brains and finance they can evolve some novel scheme of action to guide and assist these farmers so that they do not go to the extreme step of committing suicide. Please help them.

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18 Jul, 2007 1506hrs IST