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A dark chapter in the India-boom emerges.
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DABA, India _ Farmer was concerned Koude Parchekey per month for 1100 dollars of debt. And then, over the last month, after the monsoon, flooded fields and all hope that he left drowned, Parchekey its problems to be solved, as a growing number of farmers in this troubled region. He himself killed. Up to three farmers, one day in the region of Vidarbha in the centre of India swallowing pesticides, hanging trees, drowning in rivers, wells, fire or jumping down. Across India, increasingly concerned kill peasants, what’s happening in some characterize as a dark page in India recent economic boom. Most farmers are infested with debt, and bad harvests despair. But some may money to the killing itself, the Confederation will pay more than 2200 dollars to the families of the ownership of land by farmers who commit suicide. “He used to say:” I have the loan contract, and I do not know how I have to pay back. Our daughter was married to be “recalls Parchekey woman Sarvitrabai Koude Parchekey.” As a result of flooding He spoke regularly on the subject. But we thought it would never do something. ” Over 1,100 farmers in the Vidarbha region in the state of Maharashtra, have committed suicide since June 2005, a group of activists gathered farmers, as well as government offices of death. Some experts and government officials believe the figure is too high, but they will vote over the farmers themselves has been put to death in recent years. A report in January on behalf of the government of the state of Maharashtra said that the suicide rate for men farmers of the state had between 1995 and 2004, 53 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, considerably higher than in the rest of India. The peasants killed him because they are caused by money lost, money or social status, or fought with neighbours or relatives, according to the report of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai . Some had lost their crops. Some were intoxicated by alcohol or other drugs. “There is no other choice for them, so they commit suicide,” said BB Mohanty, a scholar, has been working on a further study of farmer suicides for agro-economic research in the city of Pune, Maharashtra. The study revealed that the crop losses and debt were the main causes of farmer suicides. Blame globalization farmer supporters say. Since the reforms open markets of India in 1991, the country’s economy has become a record high, fueled by the globalization and outsourcing. But such growth masks the fact that most of more than 1 billion Indians are still poor and rural areas and that reforms can only be the worst thing for many of them. From 1995 to 2005, the country’s economy has grown at an average 6 percent per year, as a result of the National Sample Survey Organization. But poverty has fallen from a maximum of only 1.3% per year. Nearly 1 in 3, more and more Indians still live on less than $ 1 per day. Most Indians have no running water, no toilets correct. More than 70 percent are still farmers, most of their fields with tractors to plough bulls. And as India modernized, it has abandoned most of his socialist tendencies. Like other countries in the developing nations suddenly adoption of the reforms of market economy, the government has drastically reduced agricultural subsidies that farmers once depended on how it reduces tariffs on l importation of foreign products. The farmers have been caught in the middle. “India is shining,” said Kishor Tiwari, operates a farm in Vidarbha in the group of activists and lobbying the federal government for farmers. ” But in the other India, farmers are required to suicide. Health care is bad. Education is poor. Rural employment opportunities are virtually anything. ” This year, the farmer commits suicide in a national crisis, the issue is likely to dominate winter session of Parliament. The left-wing parties, which are part of the ruling coalition have said they want to publicly discuss aid for farmers, the question of how a test of what the government is committed for the poor. His claim is the lower interest rates for loans from rural areas. The situation is most acute problems in six districts of the Vidarbha region, where wood beef overloaded wheelbarrow Bag cotton, deny the fact that many farmers, with a further decline to the debt this year. Most farmers say they are losing money from their crops. This heavy debt monsoons, ill prices by the government and a GM cotton on the nature of the American Monsanto, resistant to pests, but yields poor harvests, farmers, activists and even government officials. |