Why are the farmers of Hoshangabad committing suicide?

December 3, 2011 at 5:09 PM

Hoshangabad, Dec 3 (ANI): The statistics for farmer suicides in India are as striking as they are shameful. One farmer suicide every 30 minutes in 2009, screamed a NYU School of Law report earlier this year. If one accepts that many suicides also go unreported, even this shocking statistics is perhaps an under-estimation. Why, then, would another three suicides, this time in Madhya Pradesh's Hoshangabad District, be newsworthy?or one, the suicides took place during the peak festive season. At a time when people across India were celebrating and wishing each other a prosperous and joyous season, two farmers committed suicide in October, during the early days of the harvesting season. For another, this took place in a district considered to be one of the most prosperous and blessed districts in the state, irrigated richly due to the Tava Project.