1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India

Belfast Telegraph | Apr. 15, 2009 (News Report)

Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today.

The agricultural state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels.

"The water level has gone down below 250 feet here. It used to be at 40 feet a few years ago," Shatrughan Sahu, a villager in one of the districts, told Down To Earth magazine Full Story »

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by Luann Grey - Aug. 20, 2009

There was hardly any proof to the claims. I have no idea how big of a problem suicide is there or how they can prove the crops failing is the reason for it without more sources. The government was attacked by a farmer's quote, but nowhere in the story is a government official quoted or is noted that they even tried to contact them.