Summary:
In the past 15 days, a Dalit farmer Premdas Taksande of Pathri village in Yavatmal district, Ghatanji Tehsil’s Adivasi farmer Maroti Aade and Morgaon Tehsil’s Dalit farmer Shanidas Waghmare committed suicide. “The way and the number of Dalit and Adivasi farmers are committing suicides in Vidatbha it is alarming bells for the State Government. Every family of Dalit and Adivasi farmers should be given 35 kg food grains per month,” Tiwari demanded. All these farmers were harvesting cotton crop and suffered financial losses due to less production,” Tiwari stated. “The cotton farmers are disappointed over government’s apathy..