The government gives guaranteed return to private companies in its business dealings and considers their profit-motive good and desirable. Why the same doesn't hold true for farmers?

Most successful, industrialised and fast-growing Asian economies like Japan, South Korea, China, and Vietnam followed this model, as did Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Why can't India?

He also left a suicide note before consuming poison at Singhu border. The suicide letter is being verified by the police

As per the SBI Ecowrap, the monthly income of farmers will go up by a sharp 35 per cent by just revisiting the current Kisan Credit Card (KCC) norms

The farmer group pointed out that a stay on the farm laws would have been the constructive role expected from the Supreme Court to resolve the deadlock between the farmers and central government

Kamra had attacked the Supreme Court for granting bail to TV anchor Arnab Goswami in an abetment to suicide case. Taneja had also made cartoons involving the Supreme Court in the Arnab Goswami bail row

Renowned Tamil actress VJ Chithra has died by suicide. She was found hanging at her hotel room in Chennai

The suicide triggered a protest by farmers on Friday who demanded that a case be registered against sugar mill officials for their failure to procure sugarcane from farmers

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Of the total suicides in farming sector 5,763 were farmers/cultivators and 4,586 were agricultural labourers

Majority of suicides were reported in Maharashtra (17,972) followed by Tamil Nadu (13,896), West Bengal (13,255), Madhya Pradesh (11,775) and Karnataka (11,561), accounting for 13.4, 10.3, 9.9, 8.8 and 8.6 per cent respectively

Cotton production, however, will increase by 23 per cent to 35.37 million bales in 2019-20 from 28.70 million bales previous year due to improved yields and increased acreages

As per the data in the NCRB report, the number of farmer suicides in the country has plunged to 11,379 in 2016 from 12,360 in 2014 and 12,602 in 2015

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According to experts, farmers commit suicide mainly due to crop failure, damaged crops owing to inclement weather,  lack of water for irrigation, drought issues and poor market prices for their produce