The claim of the Indian Govt. that farmer suicides have dropped drastically in the current year due to government initiatives is misleading, as the country is experiencing a severe agrarian crisis due to crop failure in the major suicide-prone states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. This is because there is severe cotton, soybean and paddy crop failure and the spiral of farm suicides has restarted and the on-the-ground situation is very grim, as debt and distress are forcing innocent farmers to kill themselves