The Legacy Today “Rates of growth of agriculture in the last decade have been poor and are a major cause of rural distress. Farming is increasingly becoming an unviable activity.” -Manmohan Singh, P.M. of India, 2007.
India Honest argues that the data show clearly that the last eight years were much worse than the preceding eight. As many as 1,35,756 farmers killed themselves in the 2003-10 period.In 1995-2002, the total was 1,21,157. On average, this means the number of farmers killing themselves each year between 2003 and 2010 is 1,825 higher than the numbers that took their lives in the earlier period. Which is alarming since the total number of farmers is declining significantly.
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Compared to the 1991 Census, the 2001 Census saw a drop of over seven million in the population of cultivators (main workers). The corresponding census data for 2011 are yet to come in, but their population has surely dipped further. In other words, farm suicides are rising through the period of India's agrarian crisis, even as the number of farmers is shrinking.
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India Honest raises a point that all the data available shows that the tragedy related to farmer's suicides is neither a recent phenomenon nor a problem which was properly understood in past and no one tried to find the causes for this and evolved a rational solution for this. This problem remained for a fairly long time and it is one persistent agrarian problem, which need a "classified study.
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The political bickering was always there and the social media indulged in creating hundreds of posts, even many may be a bit vague,but which helped raising eyebrows of sleeping intelligentsia,and it is often better than doing nothing, as it is a problem of 125 crores Indians, as agriculture and farmers are the basic solid backbone, riding on which we have reached this present stage of development (from PL480 wheat donation, to green revolution, to surplus).
Compared to the 1991 Census, the 2001 Census saw a drop of over seven million in the population of cultivators (main workers). The corresponding census data for 2011 are yet to come in, but their population has surely dipped further. In other words, farm suicides are rising through the period of India's agrarian crisis, even as the number of farmers is shrinking.
India Honest raises a point that all the data available shows that the tragedy related to farmer's suicides is neither a recent phenomenon nor a problem which was properly understood in past and no one tried to find the causes for this and evolved a rational solution for this. This problem remained for a fairly long time and it is one persistent agrarian problem, which need a "classified study.
The political bickering was always there and the social media indulged in creating hundreds of posts, even many may be a bit vague,but which helped raising eyebrows of sleeping intelligentsia,and it is often better than doing nothing, as it is a problem of 125 crores Indians, as agriculture and farmers are the basic solid backbone, riding on which we have reached this present stage of development (from PL480 wheat donation, to green revolution, to surplus).
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Yes the journey to the possible destination has just started, now neglecting any thing by using it in only for political maligning game, even by killing Gajender Singh in AAP's fake drama, is more alike axing your own legs, as such problem hurts from top of the ladder to the lowest group of society.
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India Honest reminds readers that Modi or MMS, as political leaders and executives, were only and will be only in the role of a part time manager of an organisation .(Govt. of India + the states); they may try to solve and even fail in finding a complete solution. Only blaming is never a solution, but it is only our understanding and purposeful debating and supporting the justified actions of the executives that may MAY IMPROVE STATUS MARGINALLY in near future in India.
Yes the journey to the possible destination has just started, now neglecting any thing by using it in only for political maligning game, even by killing Gajender Singh in AAP's fake drama, is more alike axing your own legs, as such problem hurts from top of the ladder to the lowest group of society.
India Honest reminds readers that Modi or MMS, as political leaders and executives, were only and will be only in the role of a part time manager of an organisation .(Govt. of India + the states); they may try to solve and even fail in finding a complete solution. Only blaming is never a solution, but it is only our understanding and purposeful debating and supporting the justified actions of the executives that may MAY IMPROVE STATUS MARGINALLY in near future in India.