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Marathwada's turn [1]

SIX months ago, 65-year-old Kashinath Ravan Kolge killed himself by drinking pesticide. His wife Venubai Kolge says mounting debt drove him to suicide. "He had taken a loan to dig a borewell. But we did not get any water. We had no money left. The crops were yielding very little. It was a hopeless situation."

Publication Date: 
08/09/2006
Anupama Katakam [2]
Frontline (Chennai) [3]
Tags:
Groundwater [4], Irrigation [5], Farmers [6], Maharashtra [7], Osmanabad (D) [8], Debt [9], Crops [10]
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