During the five year period, between 2006 and 2010, 5,838 farmers had been forced to commit suicide due to various reasons in Madhya Pradesh.
Six of them took the extreme step of ending their life due to debt burden.

Madhya Pradesh home minister Umashankar Gupta made this disclosure through a written reply in the state Assembly on Wednesday.

He was replying to a query by Congress MLA Tulsir