'Some farmers died due to ill health not suicide'

Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday said there were several instances wherein farmers who die because of health reasons were portrayed as suicides.

He was reacting to reports that farmer suicides were continuing even after the coalition government announced a crop loan waiver amounting to Rs 44,000 crore. “Farmers’ suicide should stop whether it is for personal or financial reasons,” he said.