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| Deceased farmer's son Mangilal at failed borewell |
Farmers digging borewells indiscriminately on their
agriculture fields for water source but incurred huge loss as most of the
borewells have failed to give water due to drastic fall in the ground water
table due to successive drought conditions.
Story of the Rathod Yashwanthrao,50, of Kalva Thanda
of Dilawarpur mandal is a classic example to how failed borewells turning into
one of the reasons for farmer suicides
in Telangana.
He dug up four borewells on his agriculture fields in
the last one month but did not get water. Rathod Yashwanthrao committed suicide
by hanging himself to a tree close to his agriculture fields January9.
More expenditure is being incur for digging
borewells as most of the famers are going up to 400 feet deep to get water to
find water due to drastic fall in the ground water table and an average farmers
is spending more than Rs 25,000 each for digging borewell. This is result of
lack of rain water conservation to increase ground water table.
Rathod Mangilal, son of deceased farmer Yashwanthrao
who discontinued his Degree said, his father invested major share of loans he
had taken from various sources invested on digging borewells with a hope that
they may bring fortune but the failed borewells had ended up their family in now
where.
Telangana Vidyavanthula Vedika district president Dr
U. Krishnam Raju said, ‘digging borewells was nothing but gambling and added
that people investment money in both only with the hope but there was lot of
uncertainty involved in it and observed that it is high time for the government
to take steps for rain water conservation to improve the ground water table
which will go a long way’.
Farmers are investing huge money on digging borewells
on their agriculture lands and some of them become crazy of digging bore wells
in the villages on seeing one another but the success rate is low when compared
to Agriculture wells.
Rathod Yashwanthrao went to Dubai in search of job
four years ago after he uncured huge loss in the agriculture in his four acre
land and mainly he invested huge money on digging borewells. He returned one
year ago just to start again agriculture.
Yashwanthrao was popular in his village as ‘crazy
person of digging borewells’ with a hope that he too gets water for his fields
like his neighbors but he could not succeed in his efforts.
Villagers say Yashwanthrao dug up more than 20
borewells in his agriculture fields in the last 15 years. He had taken loan Rs
98,000 from local bank and Rs 5 lakh loan from private money lender.
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