Two Vidarbha farmers commit suicide

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 20:36

Two farmers from Vidarbha region have ended their lives with an advocacy group claiming that the number of such cases have risen to 332 this year.

Debt drives three more Vidarbha farmers to suicide

Last Updated: Friday, April 20, 2012, 16:50

Driven to desperation in the face of rising poverty and falling cotton prices, three more debt-ridden farmers in Maharashtra`s Vidarbha region have ended their lives.

209 Vidarbha farmers committed suicide in 2011

Last Updated: Monday, March 26, 2012, 20:21

As many as 209 farmers committed suicide in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in 2011 due to agrarian reasons, Parliament was informed.

4,864 farmers committed suicide in MP

Last Updated: Thursday, February 23, 2012, 16:17

A total of 4,864 farmers committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh in the last four years, Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta said Thursday.

WB govt denies farmers` suicide, but assures probe

Last Updated: Monday, January 16, 2012, 20:33

The West Bengal government on Monday denied reports of farmers` suicide for failing to get the right price of their produce in Burdwan and Bankura districts but assured it would probe the matter.

Three farmers kill self in Andhra Pradesh

Last Updated: Saturday, October 8, 2011, 21:48

Three farmers in the district allegedly committed suicide because of indebtedness on Friday police said.

Five farmers commit suicide in Vidarbha

Last Updated: Friday, September 2, 2011, 15:08

As many as 51 farmers committed suicide during the month of August alone.

Three debt-ridden farmers end life in MP

Last Updated: Monday, August 8, 2011, 16:13

Three debt-ridden farmers committed suicide in the last 24 hours in neighbouring Buldana district of Maharashtra, police said on Monday.

Concern in LS over farmers suicide, congo fever

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 18:21

Several issues ranging from suicides by large number of farmers in MP and incidence of Congo fever in parts of Gujarat to demand a hike in the MPLAD funds for members, were raised in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

Orissa: 2,639 farmers committed suicide in ten years

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 21:14

A total of 2,639 farmers killed themselves in Orissa in the past ten years, the state`s Agriculture Minister. He also claimed that none of the suicides was due to farm related problems or crop loss.

Three farmers in MP commit suicide due to crop failure

Last Updated: Saturday, January 22, 2011, 16:35

Three farmers allegedly committed suicide following damage to their crop due to frost and extreme cold wave conditions in Chhatarpur and Vidisha districts of Madhya Pradesh.