Farmers driven to suicide as unseasonal rains, hailstorm ruin crops
Nearly five dozen farmers in Maharashtra, MP have committed suicide this month over debt worries, say advocacy groups
Unseasonal rains and hailstorms this month have damaged the winter-sown crops of millions of Indian farmers, but Rekha Garole lost more than others.
Her 42-year-old husband Santuka killed himself this month after hail devastated the wheat and chickpea crops that they had been counting on to repay a bank loan of Rs 90,000.
Publication Date:
24/03/2014