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Why farmers are committing suicides ?
India is an agrarian country with around 60% of its people depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture. Agriculture in India is often attributed as gambling with monsoons because of its almost exclusive dependency on precipitation from monsoons. The failure of these monsoons can lead to a series of droughts, lack of better prices, and exploitation of the farmers by middlemen, all of which have led to a series of suicides committed by farmers across India.Most suicides occurred in states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Punjab.


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