Orissa Farmers

After her husband Abhimanyu, a 52-year-old farmer in Odisha's Khurda district, committed suicide by consuming poison last month, Pratima Baliarsingh is yet to recover from the trauma.

Investment from South Korea is a "priority" for India, visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday, adding that the government was taking "proactive" steps to improve the business climate and move forward with the POSCO mega steel plant project in Orissa that has been plagued by farmer protests.

In a small village in Orissa's Sambalpur district, in a small house, a family looks to its neighbours for support. 61-year-old Shukla Chand killed himself by drinking pesticide. In this part of Western Orissa, this has become a frighteningly familiar story. Since November, 11 farmers from here have killed themselves.Farmers have been catapulted fro...

Demanding loan waiver for small and marginal farmers hit by unseasonal rain, an OrissaCongress MP Pradip Majhi launched a hunger-strike near the state secretariat with his supporters."The government must announce loan waiver upto Rs 50,000 as the unseasonal rain has broken the economic backbone of small and marginal farmers," Majhi, who is also the...

Farmers in Orissa are craning their necks hoping to catch sight of rain clouds.It has been an unusually dry monsoon so far and that doesn't spell good news for  either crops or farmers in the Orissa region. Wilted seedlings and parched fields are an unusual sight in July.In Orissa, the paddy crop is drying, waiting for the  monsoons to hi...

In 2009, 43 farmers in Orissa committed suicide. They were all small farmers who couldn't access institutional loan and had to borrow from microfinance NGOs at an exorbitant rate of interest.

Over 40 farmers in Orissa engaged in rain-fed farming ended their lives between September and December last year following a total crop loss because of a bad monsoon.

Forty-three farmers killed themselves towards the end of 2009. Nearly half of them were from Western Orissa.

Dozens of farmers have committed suicide in Orissa in the past one year as the Hirakud dam is no longer serving its purpose, says a new study that warns of a grimmer situation in the coming days if urgent steps are not taken.

After her husband Abhimanyu, a 52-year-old farmer in Odisha's Khurda district, committed suicide by consuming poison last month, Pratima Baliarsingh is yet to recover from the trauma.

Investment from South Korea is a "priority" for India, visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday, adding that the government was taking "proactive" steps to improve the business climate and move forward with the POSCO mega steel plant project in Orissa that has been plagued by farmer protests.

In a small village in Orissa's Sambalpur district, in a small house, a family looks to its neighbours for support. 61-year-old Shukla Chand killed himself by drinking pesticide. In this part of Western Orissa, this has become a frighteningly familiar story. Since November, 11 farmers from here have killed themselves.Farmers have been catapulted fro...

Demanding loan waiver for small and marginal farmers hit by unseasonal rain, an OrissaCongress MP Pradip Majhi launched a hunger-strike near the state secretariat with his supporters."The government must announce loan waiver upto Rs 50,000 as the unseasonal rain has broken the economic backbone of small and marginal farmers," Majhi, who is also the...

Farmers in Orissa are craning their necks hoping to catch sight of rain clouds.It has been an unusually dry monsoon so far and that doesn't spell good news for  either crops or farmers in the Orissa region. Wilted seedlings and parched fields are an unusual sight in July.In Orissa, the paddy crop is drying, waiting for the  monsoons to hi...

In 2009, 43 farmers in Orissa committed suicide. They were all small farmers who couldn't access institutional loan and had to borrow from microfinance NGOs at an exorbitant rate of interest.

Over 40 farmers in Orissa engaged in rain-fed farming ended their lives between September and December last year following a total crop loss because of a bad monsoon.

Forty-three farmers killed themselves towards the end of 2009. Nearly half of them were from Western Orissa.

Dozens of farmers have committed suicide in Orissa in the past one year as the Hirakud dam is no longer serving its purpose, says a new study that warns of a grimmer situation in the coming days if urgent steps are not taken.