Burdwan: 16 farmer suicides despite bumper crop

Priyanka Gupta, CNN-IBN | Jun 24, 2012 at 04:07pm


Burdwan: Burdwan may be the Rice Bowl of Bengal. However, its farmers are committing suicide. Here, rice is not a source of prosperity but of anguish. Spiralling debt has reportedly driven 16 farmers here to commit suicide in the past one year.

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