Her voice breaking as she talks, Mirabai Khindkar recalls her husband Amol's suicide. The farmer swallowed poison last year after scorching heat destroyed his crops, leaving him with massive debts to loan sharks. Amol was among thousands of Indian farmers to take their own lives in the last couple of years, with the country's already volatile agriculture sector becoming even more erratic as a result of climate change-induced extreme weather.
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00:29I can't see myself.
00:31I went to work.
00:35I fell to a tree for a while.
00:39I fell to work and came to work.
00:43I was afraid she did work,
00:45I ate me, I ate me food,
00:47I ate me I ate and I ate all the food.
00:49I was afraid I was not afraid.
00:51I was waiting for it 8 min.
00:53I said I felt my pain
00:55to be blind.
00:57Then he opened his door and opened his door and opened his door.
01:02It was like this.
01:04He said something.
01:27I was murdered by the young woman,
01:30and he felt the same gap for the Wales,
01:32as well.
01:35Me's dead.
01:36I'm murdered like Rouac tidings I did.
01:37And, I did jeWid anno 7 years.
01:41By the age of six,
01:44I think about it,
01:46andicamente spent making my fillings
01:48while I Haus형 generated over 40 years.
01:52I took my family of clothes
01:54At the very last time, I took already a small way down and I had to leave the house together.
02:03I had to leave the house on the hill, but I did not leave the house any way along the hill.
02:06This was a great sacrifice and I enjoyed the house first.
02:24Farmer suicides in India began much before many of these extreme weather events were
02:30striking.
02:31Right?
02:32But what climate change and its vulnerabilities and variabilities have done is to increase
02:37the risks in farming.
02:39And this increasing risks in farming is leading to crop failures, uncertainties and so on,
02:45which is further weakening the economics of cultivation for small and marginal farmers.
02:51And that, in that sense, exacerbates the crisis.