Tuesday, 11 January 2011

POVERTY: Farmers' suicides spike in India

11 Jan 2011 Al Jazeera's Sohail Rahman reports from the farming belt in India's Andhra Pradesh state.  Concern grows as suicide rates skyrocket among the country's more than 600 million farmers.
Mounting debts, international competition and climate change are all being blamed as the reason for a rising number of Indian farmers who are taking their own lives.
Official figures say at least 17,000 farmers committed suicide in 2009.
With Video

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia/2011/01/20111119522383751.html

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