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Article on Farmers’ Suicides 1 (300 words)
India is an agriculture-based nation; still the situation of the farmers in this country is more worrying than in any other developing nations. Over the past nearly two decades, the trend of the farmers committing suicide in our country has been on the rise.
This extremely challenging issue for the first time came under sharp focus when some of farmers engaged in cotton cultivation in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra suddenly committed suicides. This trend which was started initially by the farmers of Maharashtra gradually spread throughout the country. Today the situation has become even worse and in almost every state the government is finding it tough to deal with rising statistics of farmers’ suicide.
Liberalization and globalization
It is due to the liberalization and globalization that the import of food grains at cheaper prices has already begun and on the other side, farmers in our country are forced to burn their ready crops right in the fields. The reason why they are doing so is that they are not able to get good price for their crops and sometimes the overall price which they get after selling their harvest falls far lower than the total sum invested by them in farming.
Poverty, penury and the amount of the loans taken by them for harvesting coupled with the rising interest on their loan amount eventually push them and their entire family to commit suicide.
Diagnosis is important
Although the Government has been instrumental in running many farmer’s welfare schemes recently, but no considerable impact has been visible. Thus, for the Government to diagnose the root cause of this issue it is urgent to take appropriate steps without losing anymore time. It should introduce a new, simplified welfare schemes which may help the farmers in getting good base price for their crop, besides interest free loan for farming, among others.
Conclusion: For an agricultural country like India, farmers’ suicide is an extremely worrying situation and it certainly is a national problem which demands immediate solution. The government should run more effective welfare schemes for the poor and landless farmers, some of which may be like crop insurance and providing loans to the farmers on minimal interest rates. If such welfare schemes can be offered immediately and without losing time any further, only then the farmers can be prevented from committing suicides.
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