Maharashtra kinds activity drive to deal with local weather change and forestall farmers’ suicides

Maharashtra has fashioned a particular activity drive to deal with agricultural misery as a result of local weather change and to stop farmers’ suicides. A ten-member committee comprising eight authorities officers and two consultants, constituted by the Commissioner of Agriculture of Maharashtra, held its first assembly on Monday (February 16, 2026).

As per the federal government order issued by Agriculture Commissioner Suraj Mandhare and accessed byThe Hinduthe primary goals of the duty drive are to review social, financial, psychological and agriculture-related components which result in farmers’ misery and suicides; discover implementable options for local weather change associated agricultural misery points; carry all the present schemes and applications for suicide prevention beneath an built-in strategy and add psychological well being help to those measures; put in place a particular motion plan for emergency conditions; put together local-level motion plans and hyperlink them to regional plans; and coordinate with non-governmental and semi-governmental organizations for efficient implementation of measures.

Mr. Mandhare stated the same small-scale experiment in Nashik in 2019 had confirmed profitable in lowering farmers’ suicides within the district considerably. “The main focus shouldn’t be on compensation after suicides, however on prevention of suicides and rising the revenue of the farmers,” he advised.The Hindu from Pune.

The members of the committee embrace Rafiq Naikwadi, Sunil Borkar, Uday Deshmukh, Ganesh Ghorpade, Jeevan Bunde, Nandkishor Nainwad, Satyajeet Shitole, Vinayak Hegana, Srushti Doijad and Sonali Shilkar.

Farmer suicides in Maharashtra Ploughing via the ache

Recommendations reviewed

The duty drive has reviewed and picked up the options given by all of the committees appointed on the problem up to now. It concluded that there was a necessity to enhance mortgage distribution mechanism, irrigation and water administration, minimal help worth system and mediator-free markets, crop rotation, social safety measures and management of seed high quality and crop insurance coverage.

Maharashtra is the worst-affected State as a result of farmers’ misery with 781 suicides reported within the first 9 months of 2025.

(These in misery can dial Tele MANAS helpline at 14416)