A Farmer commits suicide every 8 hours in Vidarbha, Maharashtra

That's what was buried in a BBC article I read. What's going on here?

Apparently the farmers are so much in debt that there does not seem a way out for them and thus they take this route of leaving this world and their loved ones behind.

Lot of lives are getting ruined. Half the widows are between the ages of 19 and 25 and have two to three children and they are not going to marry again because it's against tradition.

What's the government doing?

Fore more on this read BBC

Wiki: Vidarbha, Maharashtra