So far more than 300,000 farmers committed suicide due to financial hardships as per official records, now Government of India does not even publish this data (who knows it can be too scary)? ' Farmers Day ' should be changed to ' Farmers’ Martyrs Day ' By: Vijay Sardana The current political debate in India is who is friendlier to the farmers and which political system benefited the farmers most through policies. The fact is today, farmers in India are exploited by others due to outdated policies and rules which are depriving farmers of their legitimate rights in the money spend by consumers. Political system is not willing to clean the system because political funding comes from these policies which encourage extortion of the farmers. Please answer my questions: 1. Why 50% of all APMC mandis should not be reserved for the farmers cooperatives and farmers associations, when they are producer of the crop? 2. Why farmer markets are not allocate