Mumbai: The state has recorded 2,021 farmer suicides in the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Amravati divisions in 2024, according to relief and rehabilitation minister Makarand Jadhav Patil. He was responding to a written question in the state council.
According to the data, the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar division recorded 952 farmer suicides and the Amravati division recorded 1,069 in 2024. Patil said the number of farm suicides had increased by a larger number in these two divisions in the state.
NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Saturday expressed concerns about farmer suicides in Marathwada and Vidarbha and said the Centre should come up with a policy to help cultivators.
Pawar’s statement comes in the backdrop of data released by the state relief and rehabilitation department that 2,635 farmers died by suicide in Maharashtra in 2024.
“The information which has come from Marathwada and Vidarbha is worrying. We will collect accurate data from different locations. The Centre should prepare a policy to help farmers,” he told reporters in Baramati.
On speculation about NCP (SP)’s Jayant Patil crossing over to the Ajit Pawar-led NCP, Pawar said Patil had already given his statement to the media. Patil, the state president of NCP (SP), had earlier said nothing about him was certain, sparking the buzz that he could quit the party. On Friday, Patil met the NCP (SP) chief at an event in Baramati and later said he was not upset and a wrong inference was taken from his statement.
The former Union agriculture minister said farming is witnessing a revolution, and AI will soon be used in sugarcane cultivation. “AI can be used to boost quality of sugarcane. Many sugar factories will take part in the AI farming process. A meeting is scheduled later in the day with some officials of sugar factories. A revolutionary decision will be made soon, and use of AI in farming will begin soon,” he said. Pawar said Beed, which has been in the news for the murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, was once a peaceful district. “The situation in Beed was never like this. It was once a peaceful district. As many as six people from my party were elected from Beed. However, some of them misused their power, and we are witnessing the consequences,” he said.
Mumbai: The state has recorded 2,021 farmer suicides in the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Amravati divisions in 2024, according to relief and rehabilitation minister Makarand Jadhav Patil. He was responding to a written question in the state council.
According to the data, the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar division recorded 952 farmer suicides and the Amravati division recorded 1,069 in 2024. Patil said the number of farm suicides had increased by a larger number in these two divisions in the state.
NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Saturday expressed concerns about farmer suicides in Marathwada and Vidarbha and said the Centre should come up with a policy to help cultivators.
Pawar’s statement comes in the backdrop of data released by the state relief and rehabilitation department that 2,635 farmers died by suicide in Maharashtra in 2024.
“The information which has come from Marathwada and Vidarbha is worrying. We will collect accurate data from different locations. The Centre should prepare a policy to help farmers,” he told reporters in Baramati.
On speculation about NCP (SP)’s Jayant Patil crossing over to the Ajit Pawar-led NCP, Pawar said Patil had already given his statement to the media. Patil, the state president of NCP (SP), had earlier said nothing about him was certain, sparking the buzz that he could quit the party. On Friday, Patil met the NCP (SP) chief at an event in Baramati and later said he was not upset and a wrong inference was taken from his statement.
The former Union agriculture minister said farming is witnessing a revolution, and AI will soon be used in sugarcane cultivation. “AI can be used to boost quality of sugarcane. Many sugar factories will take part in the AI farming process. A meeting is scheduled later in the day with some officials of sugar factories. A revolutionary decision will be made soon, and use of AI in farming will begin soon,” he said. Pawar said Beed, which has been in the news for the murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, was once a peaceful district. “The situation in Beed was never like this. It was once a peaceful district. As many as six people from my party were elected from Beed. However, some of them misused their power, and we are witnessing the consequences,” he said.