On women surviving farmer suicides in Punjab

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 53-59

  Padhi, Ranjana ^a  

^a NONE   (India)

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EID: 84978171739     PISSN: 00129976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (5)

1. Over 16, 632 farmer suicides have taken place in 2007 itself and the total in the country since 1997 is now 1, 82, 936, according to P. Sainath (The Hindu, 12 December 2008).
2. K. C. Suri, "Political Economy of Agrarian Distress", EPW, 22 April 2006, pp 1523-29.
3. Status of Farmers Who Left Farming in Punjab, a report by the Punjab State Farmers' Commission (Government of Punjab) in collaboration with Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, September 2007.
4. See his "Rural Non-farm Employment Scenario", EPW, 8 October 2005, pp 4473-80.
5. See Sukhpal Singh, Manjeet Kaur and H. S. Kingra's "Indebtedness among Farmers in Punjab", EPW, 28 June 2008, pp 130-36.