article_snippet.sent: It's a familiar story in families across Western India's cotton production belt, where, a cotton lobbyist group claims, one cotton farmer commits suicide every eight hours.
article_snippet.sent: We get reports of two to three farmer suicides every day," said Kishor Tiwari, leader of the farmers advocacy group, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS).
article_snippet.sent: According to VJAS data, some 2,900 farmers from the area have taken some 2,900 farmers from the area lives since 2013; more than 500 have died since the start of this year.
article_snippet.sent: How many more farmers need to commit suicide before the government steps in to find a solution to this problem?
article_snippet.sent: Government data shows 11,772 farmers committed suicide in 2013 across India.
article_snippet.sent: Tiwari, of the farmer's advocacy group, said the government needs to do more to stop the wave of suicides across the country.