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Inflation-poverty-food-India-farm-suicides,FEATURE by Parul Gupta Indian farmer Saroj poses with her children Virpal , Rani , Ranjit , Kirna and Jagseer during an interview in the village of Bhatuan, some 150 kms west of Chandigarh on April 22, 2008. Saroj's husband committed suicide in November 2007, leaving behind a debt of the equivalent of about 3,000 USD. Saroj works cleaning cow dung in farms making an average of 350 Indian rupees a month. Thousands of farmers and labourers have killed themselves in the affluent state in the past decade because of a crisis blamed on official neglect of the farming sector. AFP PHOTO/Pedro UGARTE Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty