Maharashtra forms task force to address climate change and prevent farmers’ suicides

Maharashtra has formed a peculiar task unit to code cultivation distress owed to clime alteration and to prevent farmers’ suicides. A 10-member committee comprising 8 authorities officials and 2 experts, constituted by the Commissioner of Agriculture of Maharashtra, held its archetypal gathering connected Monday (February 16, 2026).

As per the authorities bid issued by Agriculture Commissioner Suraj Mandhare and accessed byThe Hindu, the main aims of the task unit are to survey social, economic, intelligence and agriculture-related factors which pb to farmers’ distress and suicides; find implementable solutions for clime alteration related cultivation distress issues; bring each the existent schemes and programmes for termination prevention nether an integrated attack and adhd intelligence wellness enactment to these measures; enactment successful spot a peculiar enactment program for exigency situations; hole local-level enactment plans and nexus them to determination plans; and coordinate with non-governmental and semi-governmental organisations for effectual implementation of measures.

Mr. Mandhare said a akin small-scale experimentation successful Nashik successful 2019 had proven palmy successful reducing farmers’ suicides successful the territory substantially. “The absorption should not beryllium connected compensation aft suicides, but connected prevention of suicides and expanding the income of the farmers,” helium toldThe Hindu from Pune.

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

Farmer suicides successful Maharashtra | Ploughing done the pain

Suggestions reviewed

The task unit has reviewed and collected the suggestions fixed by each the committees appointed connected the contented truthful far. It concluded that determination was a request to amended indebtedness organisation mechanism, irrigation and h2o management, minimum enactment terms strategy and mediator-free markets, harvest rotation, societal information measures and power of effect prime and harvest insurance.

Maharashtra is the worst-affected State owed to farmers’ distress with 781 suicides reported successful the archetypal 9 months of 2025.

(Those successful distress tin dial Tele MANAS helpline astatine 14416)