Overview
- Fresh data from the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar divisional commissioner records 899 farmer suicides from January to October, with 537 during the May–October floods.
- Beed and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar report the highest counts for May–October, followed by Nanded, Dharashiv, Latur, Parbhani, Hingoli and Jalna.
- The state has announced roughly ₹32,000 crore in relief, while Minister Ashish Jaiswal says overall farmer-focused spending is near ₹1 lakh crore and flags measures such as controlled farming and revised crop patterns.
- Farmer leaders call compensation meagre, urge an immediate crop-loan waiver, and propose a locally empowered disaster task force modeled on the COVID-19 response.
- Officials also report 12 flood-related deaths, damage to about 1,300 houses and 357 livestock losses, and the agriculture ministry says the precise role of crop-loss-linked financial distress in each suicide requires verification.