Mumbai: A total of 1,267 farmers have committed suicide in Maharashtra in the first six months of this year, with Amravati division in the state’s Vidarbha region accounting for 557 deaths.
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As per January-June data, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar division was second with 430 deaths, followed by 137 in Nashik division, 130 in Nagpur division and 13 in Pune division. No death was reported in the coastal Konkan division.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, in 2022, Maharashtra led with 37.6% of all farmer suicides in the country. The NCRB said 11,290 persons involved in the farming sector, comprising 5,207 farmers or cultivators and 6,083 agricultural labourers, ended their lives in 2022. This accounted for 6.6 per cent of all suicides in the country, which stood at 1,70,924.
