New Delhi, July 19 (Inditop.com) US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday said farmers need financial security to prevent them committing suicide as has been happening in India, and stop them from drifting away from agriculture, like in the US.
“Yeah, it (farmers’ suicides) is a great concern. It is mainly because of loans,” she said.
In India, she said, farmers are committing suicide because of the burden of debt and in the US, they are “drifting from it (agriculture)” for the same reason. Clinton said farmers need financial security.
In recent years, there have been many cases of farmers’ suicides in India due to debt and crop failure. The United Progressive Alliance government has waived off billions of rupees in loans for farmers to stem the suicides.
Clinton said farming needed to be organised. The situation can improve “if we can put more dollars back to the farmers” instead of allowing middlemen to step in.
