Severe drought in India pushed thousands of farmers to suicide

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By Nathanael JohnsonAug 25, 2016, 6:31 pm82 pts
A severe drought in India has caused a spike in farmer suicides. These suicides increased 40 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to government statistics. In those two years monsoon rains were weak, reservoirs dried up, and crops died in the inland west of the country. What’s causing this? A columnist…

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