Indian minister calls for support to farmers after 11,400 suicides in 2016
"According to National Crime Records Bureau data for 2016, which is yet to be published, 11,400 farmers committed suicide. In 2015, the number was 12,602," he said in his reply after a discussion in the Lok Sabha on the agrarian crisis.
He said farmers suicides could be checked only by increasing their income and the government was taking the necessary steps, including an increase in budgetary allocations to the agriculture sector.
Earlier, Congress member Jyotiraditya Scindia criticised the government for failing to ensure remunerative prices to farmers.
source: newindianexpress.com
