A FEEDER IS STILL HUNGRY
We live in a country where 70% of the population depends on farming, either directly or indirectly. Around 58% of total employment in the country is through agriculture, also the agriculture sector in our country contributes to around 18% of the GDP, agriculture has been consistently ignored at a steep cost to farmer's lives. Farmer suicides have been taking place across India for years now, and studies of rural distress reveal the deeply-rooted, tenacious causes, such as lack of irrigation, fragmentation of land, unsuitability of seeds, and inadequate sources of credit. THE NATIONAL CRIME RECORDS BUREAU reported that a total of 2,96,438 Indian farmers had committed suicide since 1995. Of these, 60,750 farmer suicides were in the state of Maharashtra since 1995, with the remnant amount spread out in Odisha , Telangana , Andhra Pradesh , Madhya Pradesh , Gujarat and Chattisgarh , all states with loose financial and entry regulations...