Seventy year after Independence the farmers are still poor (Delhi)

Seventy year after Independence the farmers are still poor

The rate of farmer s suicide is increasing horribly now a days and the major reason for farmers committing suicide is poverty and high debt burdens. Farmers are the major suppliers of food and dairy products in the country and without them we won t be able to survive. They work hard day and night to produce food grains and increase the production of agriculture. Despite the democratically-elected governments that claim to represent a country where over half the population is dependent on farming agriculture has been consistently ignored at a steep cost to farmers lives. Remedies have been tried -the state waived loans to small and marginal farmers ahead of elections and such actions were criticized after elections for disrupting credit discipline among the borrowers. Farmer suicides reflect the crisis brewing through several phases of structural transformation of the rural sector. The National Crime Records Bureau of India has reported that the cases of farmer suicides in the country are higher than that in any other occupation. The cases in the state of Maharashtra Kerala Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are comparatively higher. E-mail- bykp.official(at)gmail.com Mob No 919452577993 Tel-0522-2986111