About 20 farmers have committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh. Andhra is one state where farmers suicide is always at the highest every year. Previously money lenders were blamed for everything. Government is yet to ascertain the reasons behind these suicides. This is the case of one state. Other states too are facing similar problems.
After the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, that should have changed. But in Andhra, the situation still remains the same. The money under the NREGS never reaches the rural unemployed. Farmers do not get loans in time. Most of these facilities are appropriated by the big fishes. Marginal farmer is always at the risk of losing the small piece of land he owns.
In many places farmers are not eligible for loan waiver because they either hold bigger chunks of land, whereas he is in need of money to till the land and sow the seeds. Many farmers pay back the loan in time, but the politically well connected bigger farmers do not pay back the loans and appropriate most of the benefits in connivance with the corrupt bank officials and local politicians.
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