Classe baixa: suicídios de agricultores

At the height of the paddy harvesting season in September 2000, hundreds of thousands of farmers in the frontline agricultural states of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, in northwest India, had waited for over three weeks before the government agencies were forced to purchase the excess stocks. For three weeks, farmers sat patiently over heaps of paddy in the grain markets. At least a hundred farmers, unable to bear the economic burden that comes with crop cultivation, preferred to commit suicide by drinking pesticides. (Da Zmag)