While people are being forced to kill themselves like in this case

Our morally conscious politicians are busy grappling with "urgent" issues

Got a mail response from one of my friend. read on

In recent time I have been to Vidharbha
where it was said that farmers were committing suicide I visited 1 such farmer in Warud. He owned about 40 acres. He gave a clear picture about how plantations worked and how alternately each half year crops were rotated. amongst different stretches of land and how he has managed to maximize utility and output even in times of drought which varieties of seeds used and how they got them

When i asked this gentle man about why farmers committed suicide
he said not everyone who committed suicide was a farmer but drunken people who wasted their money and time on alcohol rather than tilling lands and were left penniless due to addiction,

Again a contradiction came within Amravati city where I was on an en route to catch a train to Mumbai
A rickshaw driver who claimed to be a Farmer earlier claimed that the output was insufficient to feed his family and he was forced to sell his land and drive a rickshaw to earn a living and a better income.

Also I can give you an example of (Marathi) Farmers in Dharwar where they have successfully used and planted high yielding varieties of Moong and cotton even natural colored cotton.

Also I visited Konkan recently and observed that there are vast tracts of land owned by lesser educated farmers who did not rotate the crops in alternately and ended up in acres of worthless land.


As far as Press reporters go
They do not go down to the crust and investigate as they simply sit in Air Conditioned offices and print and report what ever they like and do precious little to go out and educate farmers on modern developments in their own state where high yeilding varieties of seeds are developed Water conservation etc

and when such an incident occurs they give it such an importance without even verifying the credentials of the story

By this I do not mean to say that what happened may have been fake but this also cant be ruled out altogether