Actors Aamir Khan, Nana Patekar, and Makarand Anaspure will join a two-day conference on water conservation. Union minister Nitin Gadkari's...

Farmer suicides saw a slight decrease in 2024. Over 10,500 individuals in the farming sector died by suicide. Maharashtra recorded the most...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari stressed the need for rural employment to stop migration to cities. He highlighted the plight of farmers and w...

The Supreme Court is examining a petition demanding minimum support prices for crops be set using a weighted average cost of production acr...

The Supreme Court is currently reviewing an appeal aimed at elevating the significance of state-led assessments of farming costs in the est...

Rahul Gandhi criticised the Modi government over farmer suicides in Maharashtra, alleging indifference to their debt and ignored demands fo...

Marathwada region witnessed a surge in farmer suicides, reaching 269 between January and March 2025, a significant increase from 204 in the...

73 farmers have committed suicide in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district from January to July 2023, according to district administration data...

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

Of the 188, families of 174 farmers have received compensation, said state revenue minister adding 122 cases were declared ineligible for c...

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

Several states across the country battled severe drought in both 2014 and 2015. Some, including Maharashtra, experienced two successive yea...

Farmer suicides have fallen significantly over the last one decade, to less than 10% of all suicides. It remains, however, a politically em...

The new method records only those suicides that have farm distress or related reasons as the cause. Earlier any suicide by a farmer for any...

Farmer suicides in Maharashtra are being blamed on crop damage from unseasonal rain and hailstorms, as well as repeated droughts.

A book on farmer suicides in India reveals that they are caused by multiple factors that lead an individual to a state of helplessness.

As farmers suicides have forced their way into government and public consciousness, research into the causes of this phenomenon is now begi...