Indian cotton farmers commit suicide

23 February 1998

Indian cotton farmers commit suicide

MORE than 100 cotton farmers in southern India have killed themselves in the
past month. The suicides come in the wake of crop failures because of
devastation by caterpillars, leading to poverty and indebtedness.

The Government has not given farmers any help and cynicism has greeted
promises of aid in the future.

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  The Times 23/02/98 page 11, (Leader, page 21)