urban farming and vertical farming are the future... i see no reason for the traditional indian unscientific farming to continue any longer.
the mistake was especially widened with arrival of the american government agriculture scientists who gave india its very unscientific and unharmonious "green revolution".
so these suicides are because of wrong economic, cultural and political situations which should long have been abolished for replacement by a scientific system.
imagine if in 1947, india had become a real socialist republic and following were some of the policies...
1. land actually owned by system but given free to any person or collecitve interested in farming.
2. free housing as a right.
3. free water and electricity.
4. free initial supply of seed, fertilizer, insecticide and equipment.
5. no private lending allowed, only government banks.
6. economic system without interest calculation.
7. free medical system, free education system.
8. weddings to be a simple legal procedure, done at the city sector court, with pre-nuptial alimony agreement.
9. every person having equal rights to freedom and opinion, disregarding traditional authority roles.
10. alcohol and cigarettes banned.
11. no stock exchange allowed.
today's case had the victim being thrown out his house by his father, just because he couldn't the victim didn't have the money to pay to his father... where went the "indian" psuedo-truth saying "maat pita ke charon me swarg"??
if the 11 points above had been adopted in 1947, this man wouldn't have suicided today.