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40% rise in farmer suicides in Maharashtra

Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) tried cloud seeding in 1992 and just a few years ago over Vaitarna and Tansa lakes that supply water to Mumbai.





Micro financing was like to inject money from aboard under NGO's and it worked in other states were there was good rainfall and even good water resources but it failed to in those states where farmers have to be dependable on rainfalls and Vidharba, Telangana did saw the increase of suicides as the farmers were not able to pay the private loans and in state owned banks taking loans was like hard and even WTO mechanism was the reason because of the subsidies issue.




I cant say the situation of micro financing in bangladesh but i think it worked out there because of the water resources and quite plenty of rivers there.







Private banks will work in urban areas and they wont do business in rural areas and majority of agriculture is done in rural areas.
Problem is Vidharbha and Marathawada is lack of irrigation...they seriously no irrigation in this place. Anather factor is till date most of the powerfull politician are from w. Maharatra region which ignore other region. Corruption.... lots of corruption done by Ajit Pawar..
One more thing....this figure is still small in Vidharbha due to Soya bean,most of the Vidharbha farmer are saved by only this crop....F#ck "Kapus Ekadhikar Yojana"...I seen the farmer reciving the his installment of 600 rs ... now compare this system with Sugarcane system...which gives you crop instantaneously..Hope new C.Minister do for it..
 
Tragic!

India is really infested with poverty and other social or ethnic issues.

Hope the media and govt focuses more on solving these problems than blowing more hot air about fictional raids.
 
this is not because of sudden climate change... this has been going on for a long time.



where ever he is, he can certainly tell of these...


and these...


source - 16 Things Libya Will Never See Again | Libyan Free Press

meaning that the former libyan political system ensured that no economic burdens were endured by the citizens.



the post that hindustani78 made about maharashtra is about this year, while modi was doing his foreign darshans.
Dear Jamahir,

I have only two questions (and a subsidiary) to ask you, and if your answer is valid I will pack my bags and leave for Libya on the next flight, I promise.

1. How is Any Indian government going to pay for all this free stuff, $50k on getting married, an amount for every child born, salary if you don't find a job of your liking, free health care, subsidized petrol etc etc. where exactly is the money coming from?

2. If all 1.2 billion people had access to all these facilities, how many people do you genuinely think are actually going to do any work? As for me I will collect my 50k apartment preferably by the beach, use my free salary to buy a boat and some fishing tackle and I will make absolutely sure that I never find any job to my liking as long as I live. I suspect atleat 1.195 billion other people in. India feel the same way. So can you tell how are you going to keep health care running, teachers in schools, mines running etc if most people are out enjoying the sun.

3. If your plan is for foreigners to do all the work then how are they being paid? And where are you going to find them, it's a lot of people to service.

Thank you and let me know, I have expedia.com open on my computer, waiting for your reply.
 
Dear Jamahir,

I have only two questions (and a subsidiary) to ask you, and if your answer is valid I will pack my bags and leave for Libya on the next flight, I promise.

you may, with just the thought that most libyan cities are no longer governed by the people ( the jamahirs ) but by qaeda, taliban, ikhwaan, isis etc. ;)

1. How is Any Indian government going to pay for all this free stuff, $50k on getting married, an amount for every child born, salary if you don't find a job of your liking, free health care, subsidized petrol etc etc. where exactly is the money coming from?

point 1...

some people have put to me that libyan native population by 2011 was only four million with two million guest workers and thus it was easy for the libyan system to provide the facilities and comforts... the combined libyan population by 2011 was less than half of a mid-sized indian city like hyderabad or bangalore.

but these are mere statistics which do not reflect political ( real ) realities.

from ( Where Are India's 60 Million Missing Girls? The Tragic, Obvious Answer ) is a text on the female population of india...
The figure is 60 million, about the population of the entire UK, which Hundal surmises is comprised by those "aborted before birth, killed once born, died of neglect because they were girls, or perhaps murdered by their husband's family for not paying enough dowry at marriage."


nobody was forcing india to have such a big population, and indeed, the 1.35 billion population didn't drop from the sky one rainy morning... india's population increased over six decades and most of these were males of the unnecessary kind, so we cannot use the huge population count as a isolated measure that can be used in current arguments... if india is chaotic, violent, prone to injustice, cannot produce human-crewed spaceships, cannot design operating systems, does not have a scientific political system, it is because much of the male population is non-contributing type upon whom resources were and are being squandered... a credo of socialism - "one who produces, can consume".

i would have preferred one 10 million males and one billion females.


point 2...

people put to me the money factor, "oh, but where from will come the money to give free facilities to indian citizens", and i put back, "but what of the indian it/services industry whose income has gone mainly to building indian military into the world's biggest military systems importer"??

money is only a side-effect for facilities provision... first should come the theory, the intention of providing free facilities... and next will come the question, "ah, now what resources my country has to export and make so as to attain the free-facilities

if from 1947, socialism would have been adopted in india, whose least point was abolishing of interest-based economics, india wouldn't have farmer suicides or student suicides or much of "honor" killing... one single abolishment would have had these vast effects.

2. If all 1.2 billion people had access to all these facilities, how many people do you genuinely think are actually going to do any work? As for me I will collect my 50k apartment preferably by the beach, use my free salary to buy a boat and some fishing tackle and I will make absolutely sure that I never find any job to my liking as long as I live. I suspect atleat 1.195 billion other people in. India feel the same way. So can you tell how are you going to keep health care running, teachers in schools, mines running etc if most people are out enjoying the sun.

1. as i wrote above, we won't take the current population as constant and valid argument.

2. two socialist credos - "from each according to capacity, to each according to needs" and "one who produces, can consume"... in the jamahiriya direct-democracy socialist political arrangement, each person is expected to directly participate in the political running of society... the enhancement of this would be more scientific arrangement like collective participation in running of, for example, the neighborhood "vertical farm".

3. if you want to start a ambitious business in india, the structure of indian society and political system makes it extremely difficult... indian society is oriented towards jobs ( wage slavery ) and will make life hell for anyone with big ambition... remember the saying, "jitni chaadar utne hi payr phailao"?? now, if you want to start a business ( or non-profit org ) you cannot be doing jobs, because they are mutually excluding... but if the political system gives non-interest start-up capital or loan to entreprenuers, the society will become of risk-takers and the ambitious thus making the society a better place than something of middle-class poverty-stricken injustice-fowarding drones.

Thank you and let me know, I have expedia.com open on my computer, waiting for your reply.

i hope my post is of help in your travel arrangements. :D
 
Problem is Vidharbha and Marathawada is lack of irrigation...they seriously no irrigation in this place. Anather factor is till date most of the powerfull politician are from w. Maharatra region which ignore other region. Corruption.... lots of corruption done by Ajit Pawar..
One more thing....this figure is still small in Vidharbha due to Soya bean,most of the Vidharbha farmer are saved by only this crop....F#ck "Kapus Ekadhikar Yojana"...I seen the farmer reciving the his installment of 600 rs ... now compare this system with Sugarcane system...which gives you crop instantaneously..Hope new C.Minister do for it..

This is the reason cloud seeding for artificial rains have been planned.
 
nobody was forcing india to have such a big population, and indeed, the 1.35 billion population didn't drop from the sky one rainy morning... india's population increased over six decades and most of these were males of the unnecessary kind, so we cannot use the huge population count as a isolated measure that can be used in current arguments... if india is chaotic, violent, prone to injustice, cannot produce human-crewed spaceships, cannot design operating systems, does not have a scientific political system, it is because much of the male population is non-contributing type upon whom resources were and are being squandered... a credo of socialism - "one who produces, can consume".

i would have preferred one 10 million males and one billion females.

We have to face the world as it is man, not the one that we would wish for. I would have preferred only 50 million males and 50 million females in the country, but the fact is there are 1.2 billion souls , male, female, children. Aged, ugly, pretty, handicapped, intelligent, dumb, hardworking, lazy. Nobody is forcing India to have a large population but WE DO, and btw Muslims have the highest birth rate ( I mention that only because you are an Islamic chauvinist) and all Indians need to be taken care of. The whole reason we have a government is to take care of these people not to prove an ideology. Do you want to kill off all the unnecessary men? Socialists have done that before in Cambodia, China and Russia.

2. two socialist credos - "from each according to capacity, to each according to needs" and "one who produces, can consume"... in the jamahiriya direct-democracy socialist political arrangement, each person is expected to directly participate in the political running of society... the enhancement of this would be more scientific arrangement like collective participation in running of, for example, the neighborhood "vertical farm".

I thought you said that everyone will get free housing and salary even if they don't work? Now you are saying that you can't consume unless you produce? Who is going to police that? What if your wife doesn't want to work, will the police take her to the gulag? Suppose you don't want to participate in politics and prefer dancing or something, will they kill you? This is sounding much less of a paradise than before. I thought I would get free housing, free salary, health care, subsidized petrol, now it seems I won't get any of those things unless I produce, but produce what? I don't like any of the things you are producing in the country.

3. if you want to start a ambitious business in india, the structure of indian society and political system makes it extremely difficult... indian society is oriented towards jobs ( wage slavery ) and will make life hell for anyone with big ambition... remember the saying, "jitni chaadar utne hi payr phailao"?? now, if you want to start a business ( or non-profit org ) you cannot be doing jobs, because they are mutually excluding... but if the political system gives non-interest start-up capital or loan to entreprenuers, the society will become of risk-takers and the ambitious thus making the society a better place than something of middle-class poverty-stricken injustice-fowarding drones.

So you are a capatalist at heart? You want "interest free " loans ( presumably Islamic compliant) to help new ventures. In other words you want venture capitalists to step forward and take risk of new enterprises, this is a very capitalist idea, did not expect from you. And btw despite all the obstacles, india is number 2 in the world after the USA in country rankings of start ups.


Sorry, I am going to have to log out of expedia.com, I was expecting a paradise where I get free everything, it turns out nothing is free and I have to produce whatever the "nation" (dictator) wants me to. Non producing trouble making people will be killed, I may be seen as one ,after all who is to say that I am producing anything useful and I would prefer to spend my evenings hanging out with friends than in political meetings. I may find a venture capitalist to finance by business, but if I am not good at business and it closes down, again I may be killed off. If my wife takes a sabbatical she may be killed of as she is now non producing. Thank you Jamahir, but no thanks.
 
40% rise in farmer suicides in Maharashtra - The Times of India
Priyanka Kakodkar,TNN | Mar 22, 2015, 06.25 AM IST

BEED: He had his hopes pinned on his tiny field of jowar. Sandeep Shinde had carefully nurtured it after the drought singed his cotton crop last October. Yet days before the new crop was due for harvest last week, the rain pelted down hard. The jowar stalks collapsed into the mud and the grain turned black. A few hours later, the 27-year-old hung himself with a nylon rope from a tree in his field in Patoda taluka.

Shinde had not managed a decent crop in the last three years in this arid belt, running up debts of 1.2 lakh. The drought and bouts of rain wrecked his chances of breaking even. "He was worried about his loans and talked of migrating," says family friend Rajabhau Deshmukh.

His widow Shobha is anxious about her four-year-old son and one-year-old daughter. "I cannot even afford milk for the children," she says.

In a state where farmer suicides have become endemic, the widespread drought followed by freak rains and hailstorms have pushed many more over the edge. In many cases, the calamities claimed two successive crops.

Farmer suicides shot up by over 40% in the last seven months when the impact of these twin calamities kicked in compared to the same span last year, state government data shows. The state reported 975 suicides by farmers between January to July 2014. The figure rose to a steep 1,373 between August 2014, when the drought set in, and February 2015.

The region of Marathwada, which was among those worst hit by the drought, has seen the sharpest increase in suicides by farmers during the same period. The suicides here have risen by 85%. Every single village in the region was declared drought-affected.

Even large land-holders are committing suicide in Georai, which is part of Aurangabad's Beed district and is located close to the Jayakwadi dam. Gangadhar Shendge, who committed suicide two weeks ago, had an 18-acre farm. "Our entire kharif crop was ruined. We did not sow the rabi crop at all," says his son Mahadev Shendge. Across the state, sowing for the rabi winter crop was down by 40%.

Officials say the state is facing a potent combination of three types of drought. "The poor rain points to meterological drought, ground water depletion signals hydrological drought. And the drop in yield means we have agricultural drought as well," says Aurangabad divisional commissioner Umakant Dangat.

He attributes the changing weather patterns to climate change. "The late arrival and early withdrawal of the monsoon, the long gaps between bouts of rain and the freak hailstorms, point to climate change," he says.

Farming economics don't add up

But the vagaries of nature apart, experts say the economics of farming are tilted against the farmer even at the best of times. "The farmer is facing low yield because of the drought. Add to this the high price of cultivation and low price for the crop. How is he expected to survive?" asks farming activist Vijay Jawandia.

The minimum cost of production for a quintal of cotton is Rs 5,200. The market price for a quintal last year was Rs 5,000, which means the farmer could break even. Today the price is only Rs 3,600-3,800, Jawandia points out.

Bizarre policies like encouraging the water-guzzling sugarcane crop in this drought-prone zone have added to the water stress, experts say. Marathwada has 2.4 lakh hectares under the crop and boasts of 61 sugar factories.

"The water used for one hectare of sugarcane can irrigate over 8 hectares of rabi jowar. It should not be grown in arid regions. Sugarcane occupies five per cent of the state's land but commands 60 per cent of its irrigation water," points out Pradeep Purandare, expert member of the Marathwada Statutory Development Board.

Irrigation facilities in Marathwada remain rudimentary. But even the potential created is poorly utilized. Of the 10 lakh hectares of irrigation potential created in Marathwada, just three lakh hectares are utilized, according to the divisional commissioner.

The poor management of irrigation facilities has resulted in the rampant exploitation of ground-water, as farmers turn to borewells and tubewells. The majority of talukas in the region are reporting a dip in ground water levels compared to the last five years, escalating the water crisis in the region.

I think GOP help poor formers like India did in East Pakistan
 
We insist. You know now we have a spirit like India have in 1971. We must help them and more

We all know the reasons behind 1971 and it was mainly because of not respecting the elections results.

Spirit which India had in 1971 , I dont think GoP can have that.

900,000 tonnes of food rations were provided by the Indians. 93,000 Pakistan PoW's were provided rations till repatriations were done in 1974.
 
Crop loss, debt drive five farmers to suicide
July 8, 2015, Bengaluru/Belagavi: DHNS

Five farmers have committed suicide owing to debt burden and crop failure across the State in the last two days.

Thimmegowda (38) ended his life by consuming poison at Kuruvanka village in Channarayapatna taluk of Hassan district late on Monday night. He had grown sugar cane, banana and tomato on his five and half acres of land. Banana crop had withered away due to lack of water. Of the six borewells in his land, five had dried up. He had borrowed loans from various banks and they had issued notice to him demanding repayment, police said.

J Basappa (70), a farmer from Hurulihal village in Kudligi taluk of Ballari district committed suicide by consuming poison on Monday. He was worried over withering coconut trees and depleting water in the borewell on his land. He was shifted to Kudligi hospital where he died.

Guddappa Chalageri (35) ended his life by consuming poison at Aremallapura village in Ranebennur taluk of Haveri district on Tuesday. Taluk Raitha Sangha president Basavaraj Kadur said that Ningappa owned two acres and 20 guntas of land and had borrowed Rs 60,000 from a bank. He had also borrowed Rs two lakh from private persons. He was worried over repayment of the loans as crops failed this year owing to water scarcity.

Sharanappa Bheemanagouda Basarakoda (30) committed suicide by consuming poison at Padekanur village of Muddebihal taluk in Vijayapura district. He had borrowed Rs one lakh from a bank and Rs three lakh from private persons. He had grown sugar cane on his four acres of land, but the crop failed due to non-availability of water. Three borewells sunk in his land did not yield any water, his wife Neelamma told Deccan Herald.

Meanwhile, an Andhra Pradesh-based farmer committed suicide following the burden of loan and crop loss due to rain at Machanur village in Shahapur taluk of Yadgir district on Tuesday evening.

Anjaneya Hanamanthu Bedar (39) ended his life by consuming poison at his field, police said.

He had taken a field on lease and the untimely rain had destroyed his paddy crop grown on 15 acres of land by taking a loan of Rs 5 lakh, it is learnt.

183 farmers end lives in 3 years

As many as 183 farmers including sugar cane growers have ended their lives in the State over the past three years, according to the details available with the Agriculture department.

In a written reply to a query by MLC B Ramakrishna (JD-S) in the Legislative Council on Tuesday, Sugar Minister H S Mahadev Prasad said that 33 cases of farmers’ suicide have been reported till now during 2015-16. The minister said that 77 farmers ended their lives in 2012-13, 58 in 2013-14 and 48 in 2014-15. In three years, Chikkamagluru topped the list with 27 farmers’ suicide cases, followed by 19 in Hassan district, and 13 in Mysuru district. The government has paid a compensation of Rs one lakh in each of the cases, the minister said.
 
Congress workers protest against BJP goverment on farmers suicide in Maharashtra outside collector office in Thane, Mumbai.
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