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kingkabo  ·  3849 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The lonely life of the farmer too often leads to suicide

I don't really know if I agree with the article on the point, that a farmer kills himself, because he is so lonely. When looking at India where approx. 20.000 farmers commit suicide each year, the reason is said to be poverty and debt, not lonelyness... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers_suicides_in_India