1,254 farm suicides since Maharashtra declared loan waiver | Times of India

Maharashtra has seen as many as 1,254 farmer suicides between June and October, five months into the farm loan waiver, official data shows. Only a small portion of the waiver has been extended to farmers so far, with the bulk of accounts still being verified.

More than half these cases – 691farm suicides – in these five months are from Vidarbha, the region from which chief minister Devendra Fadnavis hails. The area has also been separately impacted by pesticide-related fatalities in the farming community .

Source: 1,254 farm suicides since Maharashtra declared loan waiver | Mumbai News – Times of India