Killer fields - Farmer sucides (The Times of India)
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The spectre of farmers committing suicide because they are unable to make both ends meet has come back to haunt Telangana. In fact, the pesticide deaths have become a metaphor in the farm distress of Telangana. What are the reasons for the disturbing trend? Is it the spiralling debt burden or successive crop failure as Telangana finds itself caught in a whirlpool of tragedy and impoverishment? Most of the suicides have been reported from rain-fed areas. Truant rains and mounting loan burdens are pushing the farmers over the edge, driving them to suicide. (...) Source: The Times of India