An estimated 200,000 farmers in India have committed suicide in the past 13 years, or, roughly one every thirty minutes. These farmers, immersed in crippling debt, are taking their own lives, leaving their families grief-stricken and with even less resources. “Vidarbha, known as the cotton belt of India, is more recently known as the ‘suicide belt’.” Lata Sharma, director of Navdanya Mumbai, an NGO promoting organic farming and farmers rights told MediaGlobal. “The epidemic of farmers’ suicides is the real measurement of the stress under which Indian agriculture and Indian farmers have been put by policies of neglect and indifference.”