The year 2018-19 has been challenging for farmers, with 42% of talukas in Maharashtra facing a severe drought.

At least 12,805 farmers took their lives due to indebtedness and unproductive land

Saying that farmers' suicides are still on the rise despite the announcement of the debt write-off, Patole said the government is "insensit...

In the last 8 months, 580 cultivators have committed suicide from Marathwada. Farmers across the state have been under a lot of stress due ...

Opposition Congress today advised Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to undergo "counselling" for "failing" to curb farmer suicid...

"We will also take care of education of children of the drought-hit farmers," Thackeray, who is on a visit of the drought-hit areas of Mara...

As many as 628 farmer suicides have been reported so far this year in the Marathwada region, which has experienced the most deficient rainf...

Fadnavis’s tour to Marathwada to visit farmers and understand their grievances and express solidarity with the farmers has not helped in cu...

Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh governments, too, are expected to soon start using lowcost drones to assess crop losses.

In 2014, the state had reported 1,981 farmer suicides. In just three months this year, it has reached 30% of that figure.

Farmer suicides shot up by over 40% when the impact of these twin calamities kicked in compared to the same span last year, state governmen...

The oppn Congress accused the BJP-Shiv Sena govt of reneging promises, particularly on issue of Local Body Tax, toll tax and farmers' welfa...

He said that since farmers have not been able to pay off their electricity bills, he has decided to give them a one-time waiver to farmers.

A delegation of Sena leaders today met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on the issue and sought immediate measures for affected farmers.

Maharashtra government has doled out another debt waiver to farmers but the critical region of Vidarbha is not happy.

Appropriate measures were likely to be taken by the Union Government to relax the two hectare cap to benefit more farmers under the ambitio...

Political warfare is set to intensify over the sensitive issue of farmers’ suicide in the Maharashtra hinterland in the days to come.