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• Why farmers end their lives?

  Created: Sunday, 31 May 2009 13:33 Author: Administrator

  High time for a thorough investigationby Ranjit Singh Ghuman Suicide, in general and by farmers and agricultural labourers in particular, is an unnatural and a serious phenomenon. This is an indicator of serious limitations of the country’s social, econ...

• Harvard to study farmers’ suicides

  Created: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 15:30 Author: Administrator

  Prabhjit Singh Chandigarh, May 24 AMIDST ALARMING reports that around 3,000 farmers are committing suicide in the state every year, Harvard University of the US has identified Moonak and Lehra subdivisions in Sangrur district to initiate a study of such c...

• Harvard shocked at Punjab’s rural suicides: Activist work appreciated

  Created: Wednesday, 06 May 2009 17:33 Author: Administrator

  CHANDIGARH, April 10, 2009: The work of a Chandigarh-based NGO, Baba Nanak Educational Society, was appreciated at the just-concluded annual Bridge-Builders Conference held at Harvard University. Harman Kaur Sharda, project director of Chandigarh-based NG...

• 1,500 Indian Farmers Commit Mass Suicide: Why We Are Complicit in these Deaths

  Created: Tuesday, 05 May 2009 22:40 Author: Administrator

  Crop failure may have pushed farmers over the edge, but American companies have been leading them to the cliff for years. By Tara Lohan, AlterNet.The headline has been hard to ignore. Across the world press, news media have announced that over 1,500 farme...

• Punjab -- the land of one farm suicide a day

  Created: Friday, 01 May 2009 13:59 Author: Administrator

  BATHINDA: Punjab's revenue records show that some 130 farmers committed suicide between 2000 to 2007. Grassroot organisations put the number at 20,000 plus. Now, after the Punjab Government commissioned a survey cum study by the PAU, Ludhiana, it has come...

• Farmers little interested in polls: BKU(U) chief

  Created: Friday, 01 May 2009 07:05 Author: Administrator

  Sushil GoyalTribune News Service Sangrur , April 30Farmers are little interested in Lok Sabha (LS) elections because political parties have not been touching their issues and demands . Besides the parties do not have programme to solve problems of the far...