The number of farmer suicides in 2015 stood at 1,024 as against 569 in 2014, in Marathwada, according to a report by The Times of India.
The issue was back in the limelight after two incidents of farmer suicides in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
A distressed 38-year-old Bandu Burkul resident of Taklinali village in the limit of Karmad police committed suicide by hanging himself on Tuesday morning.
In Varzadi village in the same jurisdiction, 30-year-old Sominath Patade hung himself from a tree on his patch of land on Tuesday morning.
The rising number of farmer suicides have come amid Union and Maharashtra Agriculture Ministry’s claims that efforts are being made to solve farmers’ problems.
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