Doctors link mass suicides, schizophrenic episodes among farmers to pesticide exposure

Sunday, May 8, 2016
By Paul Martin

by: Julie Wilson
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, May 08, 2016

Previous reports have linked mass suicides among farmers in India to mounting debt and crop failures as a result of GMO crops, particularly cotton, as it was forcibly converted to patented, transgenic varieties owned by large agrochemical companies. But now we’re learning that pesticide exposure may be to blame for a new wave of suicides among farmers in India.

Some 80 farmers in the village of Badi committed suicide between January and March of this year, according to the Times of India. Home to more than 2,500, Badi village (Madhya Pradesh) has had more than 350 suicides over the last two decades, affecting nearly every family in the village.

“There are 320 families in our village and at least one person from each has killed himself or herself,” said Rajendra Sisodiya, a newly elected sarpanch or political figure in Badi. Sisodiya moved into the position after the previous sarpanch, his cousin, hung himself from a tree outside his home. Sisodiya’s mother and brother had also committed suicide.

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