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Her voice breaking as she talks, Mirabai Khindkar recalls her husband Amol’s suicide. The farmer swallowed poison last year after scorching heat destroyed his crops, leaving him with massive debts to loan sharks. Amol was among thousands of Indian farmers to take their own lives in the last couple of years, with the country’s already volatile agriculture sector becoming even more erratic as a result of climate change-induced extreme weather.
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Actually, forced introduction of GMO crops requiring expensive fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides drove many ln'dian farmers to drink pesticide to escape their loan debt to Western Agra colonization. FIFY.