FARMER'S SUICIDE FIGURES IN PUNJAB

• A Revenue Departmet report compiled in 2008 on the basis of details provided by DCs said that 132 farmers had committed suicide between 2002-2007.
• Ludhiana’s Punjab Agricultural University's economics department came up with a figure of 2,890 suicides between 2000 - 2008 in just two districts
• It stated that in Sangrur and Bathinda, 1,643 and 1,247 farmers had committed suicide, respectively.
• Movement Against State Repression claims 1,700 farmers committed suicide between 1988 - 2008 in two subdivisions of Sangrur district.
• A Punjab Farmers' Commission study says 2,000 farmers committed suicide every year between 1998-2008
• Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) claims more than 40,000 farmers committed suicide during this period