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- Title
Suicide count down 15 per cent in cotton country.
- Abstract
The article reports on the 15 percent decline in farmer suicides in the six cotton-producing districts of Vidarbha in India from a record 1,448 in 2006 to 1,230 in 2007. The claims was made by the official state government web site which is monitoring the implementation of special relief packages for the region's farmers. Factors which contributed to the decline in farmer suicides include a good monsoon and the government initiatives in the form of Rupee 4,800-crore worth of state and central government packages.
- Subjects
INDIA; SUICIDE; COTTON farmers; AGRICULTURAL subsidies; DOMESTIC economic assistance; MONSOONS
- Publication
Man-Made Textiles in India, 2008, Vol 51, Issue 2, p73
- ISSN
0377-7537
- Publication type
Article