Few eye openers......

FARMER SUICIDE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF VIDARBHA

The suicide by the farmer in the state of Maharashtra is increasing at an alarming rate. As per the latest report as many as 1264 cases of suicide is reported from different parts of the state since June 2005 to till date. The most affected areas are the Vidharbha, Amrawati, Yavatmal and Buldhana district of Maharashtra. The given below table shows the number of suicide in the said districts.

The table shows that the Vidharva region is facing with a grim situation. In fact in the last three month in every 8 hours one farmers is committing suicide.
Former Shetkari Sanghatana leader Vijay Jawandhia pointed out that the farmers, and particularly cotton growers, were in huge distress in view of the present agricultural scenario in the region.
One and a half months into the cotton sale season they find that the government support price is too low. "How can they survive when the costs of agriculture inputs are drastically increasing and they are not getting remunerative price," he asked, and said that more farmers are being pushed to the edge in the region.
Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti alleged that the government-sponsored cotton marketing federation had hardly purchased 13 lakh quintals of raw cotton from its 100-odd procurement centres, while the private traders have purchased 68 lakh quintals till December 31.
On the other hand, farmers in the region have produced over 220 lakh raw cotton this year. The private traders are offering at least Rs 100 less for every quintal than the support price announced by the government, he added.
Tiwari reiterated that the cotton growers be given at least Rs 500 per quintal as bonus so that they could cope up with the crisis. Moreover, total waving off of the farmers' debts could help in curbing the suicides.

Students accept the challenge to find solutions towards farmers suicide

We can do it
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The students of Welingkar Institiute Of Management Reserach met today to discuss the possible solutions for the long-pending problem of farmers in the region.

The meet was conducted in presence of faculty members like Prof. Sahuraja,Prof Amita Shankar, Prof Ketna Mehta,Madhuri Lele, Prof Deepa Dixit , Ms. Swar Kranti.

It's a long road ahead before reaching to some concrete solutions.

There are so many impracticalities associated with the issue.
Continuous pressure has been building on the state and central governments for last few years.

Despite the efforts of many people,the situation has not improved.

It's really a serious problem while considering that 70 percent of INDIA lies in rural areas.

We can't ignore such a huge population while creating other phenomenal success stories like TATA-CORUS, HINDALCO-NOVELIS,HUTCH-VODAFONE.......and so on.

It is agonizing to see helplessness to tackle this problem .

Who is helpless ......those farmers or we as countrymen to do something about it?

Can we do something to bring back the poor farmers' confidence in our "SYSTEM"?

Are they really POOR ?

definitely not when India is trying to become super global power in near future......

with real sense of commitment and dedication , solutions can be attained.

let's start building that confidence first in ourselves and possibly then in our KISAANS (Farmers).

because there are some people in our country who believe that;

"JAHAAN CHAH WAHAAN RAAH"

which means where there is a will,there is a way.

so with this positive attitude project nirmaan begins "The journey".

no end to farmer suicides in 2007.....

Farmer suicides in Vidarbha cross 100 mark

From correspondents in Maharashtra, India, 07:04 PM IST


The number of suicides by debt-ridden farmers in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region has crossed the three-digit mark in the first 40 days of 2007 with 15 deaths reported during the last three days, including six Saturday.

While most of the 106 suicides have taken place in the six dry-land farming districts of Yavatmal, Amravati, Akola, Buldana, Washim and Wardha in western Vidarbha , one farmer in the rain-fed paddy growing Gondia district in eastern Vidarbha too ended his life Saturday.
The unabated incidence of suicides are significant in the backdrop of the recent revelation by state Finance Minister Jayant Patil that the central government has disbursed only a fraction - Rs.24.8 billion - of the promised Rs.294.1 billion in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's relief package of July 2006.

The promised Rs.294.1 billion is a part of the total package of Rs.375 billion meant exclusively for completing the pending irrigation projects in western Vidarbha, which will cover an additional 0.15 million hectares of the total 3.5 million hectares of cultivable area. Currently, the area under irrigation is 0.45 million hectares.

Almost 98 percent of more than 1,200 suicides in the last 20 months have occurred in the dry-land farming area in the region 93 percent of which will remain unirrigated even after completion of all the ongoing projects with the support of the prime minister's relief fund.
According to Amravati divisional commissioner S.K. Goyal, monetary provision for micro-watershed development that provides an answer to the agrarian crisis is far too inadquate.

'The farm distress is bound to continue as long as the general approach to agricultural management remains flawed', he says.

'Low priority to in-situ water conservation and mindless application of the green revolution formula of cost intensive farming in unirrigated areas are the hallmarks of the disastrous approach to agriculture', Goyal, who has worked as Maharashtra's agriculture commissioner, added.

Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti president Kishor Tiwari, who has been spearheading the farmers' movement in the region, says loan waiver and subsidy for food crop farming should be given priority.