25,000 Farmers Seek President’s Permission To Hang Themselves On Independence Day

[Spring Onion]

Trying to arm-twist the government.... they are a lalchi lot... when there is a bumper crop.. they want high prices...when there is a bad crop ..they want all of that to be brought out of my tax money....when crop fails ..they want compensation...then they want free electricity... free water.... they pay no taxes... every major fertilizer is subsidized... all out of my taxes..that I earn slogging day in day out.

the farmer's suicide issue in India is not new. so it needs to be resolved instead of finding excuses

 

[AnnoyingOrange]

the farmer's suicide issue in India is not new. so it needs to be resolved instead of finding excuses

Farmer suicide is a global Phenomenon and not only specific to India... in India this is a problem because every farmer. suicide becomes tagged as Suicide due to loss of crops...

There are farmers killing themselves because of societal pressure... due to family pressures... at times dues to mental disorders... no one is denying that there are suicides due to bad crop... but that is a percentage of total farmer suicides...

 

[Spring Onion]

Farmer suicide is a global Phenomenon and not only specific to India... in India this is a problem because every farmer. suicide becomes tagged as Suicide due to loss of crops...

There are farmers killing themselves because of societal pressure... due to family pressures... at times dues to mental disorders... no one is denying that there are suicides due to bad crop... but that is a percentage of total farmer suicides...

that is a blatant attempt to brush the dirt under the carpet. Can you come up with suicide rate of farmers in other countries and compare it with that in India? the farmers in India are facing problems since long. I do not know if this will help or not but any learned member can throw some light if land reforms can help in reducing burden on these farmers?

 

[GURU DUTT]

that is a blatant attempt to brush the dirty under the carpet. Can you come up with suicide rate of farmers in other countries and compare it with that in India? the farmers in India are facing problems since long. I do not know if this will help or not but any learned member can throw some light if land reforms can help in reducing burden on these farmers?

jana ji tell me sachhi sachhi does there are no farmer seucides in land of the pure or should i post some youtube links

 

[Spring Onion]

jana ji tell me sachhi sachhi does there are no farmer seucides in land of the pure or should i post some youtube links

post news so that we all can read and comment I have no issue if you post. and if you want to compare with us

 

[nair]

jana ji tell me sachhi sachhi does there are no farmer seucides in land of the pure or should i post some youtube links

This is what wrong with us..... Why should we bother about suicide rates in other countries??? Just to feel they are deeper than us in the same sh1t???

We have a problem and it is the responsibility of the state govt's to help the farmers..... with the state of monsoon this year, situation is going to worse...

 

[AnnoyingOrange]

that is a blatant attempt to brush the dirt under the carpet. Can you come up with suicide rate of farmers in other countries and compare it with that in India? the farmers in India are facing problems since long. I do not know if this will help or not but any learned member can throw some light if land reforms can help in reducing burden on these farmers?

Here you go...

Farmers' suicide: Across culture
Farmers have a horrifyingly high suicide rate. These people are trying to change that. - Vox
Why Farmer Suicide Rates Are the Highest of Any Occupation | Terezia Farkas


Interestingly:
In the U.S. the rate of farmer suicides is just under two times that of the general population. In the U.K. one farmer a week commits suicide. In China, farmers are killing themselves daily to protest the government taking over their prime agricultural lands for urbanization. In France, a farmer dies by suicide every two days. Australia reports one farmer suicides every four days. India yearly reports more than 17,627 farmer suicides. -- Newsweek 2014


Interestingly... reforms are being positioned as anti farmers.. by political parties acros the globes... to some they simply mean "Farmers land will be snatched away and given to large corporate".

 

[GURU DUTT]

post news so that we all can read and comment I have no issue if you post. and if you want to compare with us

Suicide the only way to escape poverty? - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

http://www.google.co.in/url?q=https...RZQBbQ&usg=AFQjCNGIeNd7fIt13k6fJ9rcazS5Jx1eFA

 

[jamahir]

i have posted a hundred times how to make farmer suicides and other economic/social injustices a thing of the past.

 

[jamahir]

this incident again shows what a nonsensical political and economic system india has had for 68 years... 25,000 people declare they want to commit suicide tomorrow and people are finding excuses and continuing to lead their generally parasite existence... shameful.

if any member on this thread wishes to be called a sensitive person, they should support socialism in india.

and yes, throw those mba's and the economics professors from the shitty ten or fifteen "indian institutes of management" ( iim ) into the sea.

---------------
below is a earlier post of mine... @Spring Onion
---------------

it should, for below is how any citizen ( and by consequence, farmers ) in libyan jamahiriya lived...

1. any person interested in engaging in farming was given free land by the system, along with seeds, tools needed and housing, for free.

2. electricity and water was free ( that too in a largely desert country ), and libya had history's largest irrigation system, "the great man-made river" project ( gmrr ).

3. housing for any citizen was to be lived rent-free until the resident wished... rent was considered a compromise on the freedom of the citizen and therefore anti-human.

4. medical system was free, and if treatment was available outside, the costs would be borne by the system.

5. education system was free, and if that course was available outside, the costs would be borne by the system.

6. education was of one's choice and could not be forced by parents or circumstance.

7. food was at low cost.

8. any person interested in establishing a business was given a start-up amount of 20,000 dollars, interest-free.

9. all loans were interest-free.

10. no private banks operated in libya.

11. for a person not in employment, he or she was given the average salary ( stipend ) for the person's choice of field of employment... in fact, this was a coming-down in later years from the early days of the al-fatah revolution... in 1979, a unemployed person was given 7000 dollars per month !!

12. libyan jamahiriya being socialist, all wasteful traditions were frowned upon, like 600-guest four-day weddings like what happens in south asia.

13. at weddings, the bride and groom were together given 50,000 dollars to help them set up a new home etc.

14. car purchase was subsidized by the system.

15. there was a plan ( or maybe this existed already ) to deposit 500 dollars into the bank account of every citizen every month.

----------

so tell me, why would any farmer suicide in libyan jamahiriya, when his material needs had been taken care by the system, leaving him spiritually at ease ??

 

[Spring Onion]

Suicide the only way to escape poverty? - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

out of 1600 in ten months one was farmer

 

[jamahir]

@Irfan Baloch @waz @Manticore @Jango

please make this a sticky thread.

 

[mike2000 is back]

In 2014, India recorded 12,360 farm suicides. This is slightly more than the number of farmer suicides registered in 2013, but in general there is a slow decline in the number of officially recorded farm suicides.

View attachment 246909
​

The time trend for Total and farmers suicide rate per 100000 in India - Suicide rate for general population still remains higher than that of Farmers.​

Jesus christ....thats a huge nunber. How come i have never heard about this phenomenon even in our media?

Any reason why they are committing suicide in such large numbers? Over 10,000 suicides every year, thats crazy.
God , this world is so unjust.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Jesus christ....thats a huge nunber. How come i have never heard about this phenomenon even in our media?

Any reason why they are committing suicide in such large numbers? Over 10,000 suicides every year, thats crazy.
God , this world is so unjust.

>> Though agricultural sector forms only 17% of the Indian GDP but 49% of India's labor force (#2 after China) happens to be employed in it - that is about 240 million people employed in agriculture - and that's the reason the figure sounds too big.

>> Causes of Farmer Suicide include - Bankruptcy being the prime one after Family Problems.

​

Bankruptcy contributes significantly more to farm suicides than to other suicides - This clearly illustrates the problems with making farming profitable and extending agricultural credit, both of which we talked about in this piece on the economics of farming in India.
​

​

 

[temp1994]

the farmer's suicide issue in India is not new. so it needs to be resolved instead of finding excuses

No excuses are being made.

Rate of suicide among farmers in India is approximately 1/7 of suicide rate of general population. A member has already posted statistics.There is no "farmer suicide problem". Some people would always commit suicide for whole laundry list of reasons.

Grow a brain and stop seeing demons where none exist.

This is what wrong with us..... Why should we bother about suicide rates in other countries??? Just to feel they are deeper than us in the same sh1t???

Since you are one of those sickular preppy bolshevik from Socialist republic of malluistan, you could not be expected to have enough frontal cortex to understand that a problem exist only if its rate of occurrence is higher than for whole of population.For this reason a comparison would always be needed with global average.

But a preppy bolshevik could never become mature and wise enough to understand that a "Zero suicide society" or a "Zero crime society" could never exist. One could only gauge a problem by comparing it with others.

Even more disgusting is the racial inferiority complex accompanied with a entitlement attitude that you latte liberals and preppy Bolsheviks have. You people are always looking for "causes" for your social justice crusade in order to imitate your PC cousins in west, irrespective of whether they justify a crusade or not.

We have a problem and it is the responsibility of the state govt's to help the farmers..... with the state of monsoon this year, situation is going to worse...

Unless you have been living under a rock, you would know that monsoon has been good this year.

Jesus christ....thats a huge nunber. How come i have never heard about this phenomenon even in our media?

Any reason why they are committing suicide in such large numbers? Over 10,000 suicides every year, thats crazy.
God , this world is so unjust.

What huge number?

10,000 suicides in a population of 1.2 billion is not even noticeable number. And suicides have very little to do with justness or lack of it.

There is no 0 crime or 0 suicide society.