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Driven to desperation
There has been a spate of suicides by farmers in even fairly prosperous farming regions of Karnataka. PARVATHI MENON on the reasons for this.

Burdened by debt
RAMACHANDRA SHIVAPPA Halgali (Banakar) was a 40-year-old ryot from Gangapur village in Ranebennur taluk of Haveri district. He had the responsibility of managing the entire agricultural operations of the family ever since his elder brother died ...

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FROM WITHIN an ocean of agrarian distress and poverty, there are but a few individuals who give up on life. Indebtedness may be the common factor in the suicides by farmers, but it is clearly not the only or the most immediate reason, as there ...

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