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RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF FARMERS SUICIDES IN TELANGANA STATE

  • Unique Paper ID: 177233
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 12
  • PageNo: 138-142
  • Abstract:
  • The Indian farmers are in distress as the farmers did not get the remunerativeprices for their agricultural produce Majority of the farmers are in debt trap.As many as 6,351 farmers committed suicide in 2016 across India, or per cent 17 every day, according to the latest Home Ministry data. Suicides declined 21per cent from 8,007, or 22 every day, in 2015, data show. Suicides in the farming sector declined 10 per centfrom 12,602 in 2015 to 11,370 in 2016., data based on provisional data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a division of the Home Ministrydid not reveal the causes for suicides in 2016. "As per NCRB report of 2015, bankruptcy or indebtedness and farming-related issues are reported as major causes of suicides among farmers/ cultivators, “Family problems followed by Illness are reported as major causes of suicides among agricultural labourers." Suicides of agricultural labourers increased 9 per cent to 5,019 in 2016 (14 every day) from 4,595 in 2015 (13 every day). Telangana stands in the second position in the number of farmers’ suicides in the country. The highest and the more than the one-third of the farmers’ suicides in the state appear in Warangal district in the study period followed by the districts of Nalgonda with 12% and Karimnagar with 10%. The lowest is reported in Nizamabad (3.67%) and Adilabad (3.99%) districts. The declared drought mandal/blocks were 11, 12 and 19 in the districts of Warangal, Nalgonda and Karimnagar, respectively, in Kharif 2015. It could be ascribed the higher level of incidence of farmer suicides to the cotton crop cultivation and the effect of continuous drought for the three preceding years of the present study year 2015-16.
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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 12
  • PageNo: 138-142

RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF FARMERS SUICIDES IN TELANGANA STATE

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