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In 2012, the National Crime Records Bureau of India reported 13,754 farmer suicides. Farmer
suicides account for 11.2% of all suicides in India. Activists and scholars have offered a number of
conflicting reasons for farmer suicides, such as monsoon failure, high debt burdens, genetically
modified crops, government policies, public mental health, personal issues and family problems.
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