Cotton Farmer Suicides
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Punjab Cotton Farmers' Dilemma: Despite More Crop Yield, Profit Is Meagre
- Monday June 12, 2017
- India News | Written by Nikhil Pandhi
For 12 years, the majority of Punjab's farmers have been growing Bt cotton, or genetically modified cotton seeds, which have protected their crops from pests like bollworms. Their yields have doubled too. However, in the last few years, Bt cotton has displayed a remarkable vulnerability to a large number of sap feeding pests like white-flies, which...
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53 Bottles of Scotch in Home of Punjab Official Accused of Duping Farmers
- Tuesday October 6, 2015
- India News | Reported by Anand Kumar Patel, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy
Details of bank transactions running into crores, thousands of US and Canadian dollars and a large stock of expensive liquor were recovered from the home of a Punjab bureaucrat, police have said.
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In Punjab, How Failing Pesticides, Seeds Are Claiming Farmers' Lives
- Friday September 11, 2015
- India News | Written by Anand Kumar Patel
Seven acres of pest-infested cotton, an old mother, two sisters and a six-lakh debt, is what Kala Singh has left behind. The 33-year-old Punjab farmer killed himself on Wednesday by drinking the same pesticide that failed to save his crop.
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12 Farmers in Vidarbha Commit Suicide In 72 Hours
- Sunday December 28, 2014
- India News | Press Trust of India
In 72 hours, 12 farmers from Vidarbha region in Maharashtra committed suicide due to crop losses, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samittee chief Kishore Tiwari announced today.
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Punjab Cotton Farmers' Dilemma: Despite More Crop Yield, Profit Is Meagre
- Monday June 12, 2017
- India News | Written by Nikhil Pandhi
For 12 years, the majority of Punjab's farmers have been growing Bt cotton, or genetically modified cotton seeds, which have protected their crops from pests like bollworms. Their yields have doubled too. However, in the last few years, Bt cotton has displayed a remarkable vulnerability to a large number of sap feeding pests like white-flies, which...
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www.ndtv.com
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53 Bottles of Scotch in Home of Punjab Official Accused of Duping Farmers
- Tuesday October 6, 2015
- India News | Reported by Anand Kumar Patel, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy
Details of bank transactions running into crores, thousands of US and Canadian dollars and a large stock of expensive liquor were recovered from the home of a Punjab bureaucrat, police have said.
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www.ndtv.com
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In Punjab, How Failing Pesticides, Seeds Are Claiming Farmers' Lives
- Friday September 11, 2015
- India News | Written by Anand Kumar Patel
Seven acres of pest-infested cotton, an old mother, two sisters and a six-lakh debt, is what Kala Singh has left behind. The 33-year-old Punjab farmer killed himself on Wednesday by drinking the same pesticide that failed to save his crop.
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www.ndtv.com
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12 Farmers in Vidarbha Commit Suicide In 72 Hours
- Sunday December 28, 2014
- India News | Press Trust of India
In 72 hours, 12 farmers from Vidarbha region in Maharashtra committed suicide due to crop losses, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samittee chief Kishore Tiwari announced today.
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www.ndtv.com