With 9 Farmers Committing Suicide Every Day in Maharashtra, The Situation Is Dire: Report

Posted on April 6, 2016 in Society

By Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com:

As many as 3,228 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra in 2015, the highest since 2001, according to data tabled in the Rajya Sabha on March 4, 2016–that is almost nine farmers every day.

The number of suicides almost equal the number of people killed (3,477) by the Taliban, a global terror organisation based in Afghanistan, in 2014, IndiaSpend had reported earlier.

Vidarbha and Marathwada, with 5.7 million farmers, accounted for 83% of all farmer suicides in Maharashtra in 2015.