Credit, indebtedness and farmer suicides in Punjab: some missing links
Abstract
The EPW Review of Agriculture (June
30, 2006) with two papers (P Satish,
‘Institutional Credit, Indebtedness and
Suicides in Punjab’ and A Gill and L Singh,
‘Farmers’ Suicides and Response of Public
Policy’) on suicides among farmers in
Punjab is very timely as the state has been
left out of the relief package for the indebted
farmers of other states. Interestingly,
Satish’s paper argues that indebtedness
has little to do with suicides by the
farmers in the state. It is on this paper that
I would like to offer my comments.
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