2 farmers were found dead by a rope hanging on their drought farms due to a lack of rain and poor farm yield in India.
According to reports, the two suicides happened in the week and this has left other neighboring farmers wondering about their safety and the current situation of extreme drought leading to crop damages and poor yields.
Ahirwar, a resident of Pah village under the jurisdiction of the Banpur Police Station, committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling with a saree. According to his family, he was a tenant farmer with 1.25 acres of urad planted.
It appears that most farmers in Bundelkhand’s Lalitpur district, in Uttar Pradesh (UP) are tenant farmers who hardly make their earns meet yet are mandatory to pay their land rents and labor.
The situation keeps worsening day after day. Bundelkhand, Kanpur, and eastern UP have received less rain this monsoon, according to the meteorological agency. Rain is unlikely to fall until September 30. More crops will be harmed if the current condition persists, according to meteorologists.
More farmer unions are pushing hard to declare Bundelkhand’s Lalitpur district a drought area which will lead to compensation of migrant farmers to prevent further sad events from happening in India.
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