Three
more farmers committed suicide in Vidarbha district on the eve of Diwali or
lights festival, taking the toll of farmers' suicide this year to 624, the
Hindu newspaper said.
The
newspaper quoted Vidarbha Jana Andolan Samiti (VJAS), a social group working
among farmers of Vidarbha, as saying the cultivation cost has almost doubled
this year due to unusual rise in the prices of seeds, fertilizers and labor
rate.
The
market prices of cash crops like cotton and soyabean are being traded much
lower than that of last year at the same time, said the report.
There
is no intervention from the government for procurement of these crops as the
Minimum Support Prices, forcing farmers to offload their crops at throw away
prices resulting in heavy financial losses, according to the report.
This
took place after 60 farmers killed themselves in the Vidarbha in September
after a massive pest attack ruined their crops. --NNN-XINHUA
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