Failing crops, ineffective alternate income schemes, and abysmally low crop prices - these are just some of the factors that have led to a spike in the number of debt-related farmer suicides in India's heartland over the last few years.
As part of the 'What's ailing rural India' series, a CNBC-TV18 team traveled to Aurangabad and Maharashtra.
Meanwhile, agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh promised to take action against insurance companies that do not pay the farmers who have been hit by unseasonal rains.
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