Farmers in India face numerous challenges that sometimes lead to suicide. Drought, an unreliable monsoon system, lack of proper irrigation, depleting groundwater, and lack of power supply all contribute to crop failure and mounting debt for farmers. Crop failure from factors like pests, insects, natural disasters, or climate change can devastate farmers financially. When crops fail multiple times, farmers struggle to support their families and often take their own lives. The suicide of the sole breadwinner has severe negative impacts on the family and community. To prevent further suicides, efforts must focus on building social support, creating alternative livelihoods, encouraging multiple cropping, pesticide education, timely government assistance, and ensuring reasonable crop prices.

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2. FARMER'sSUICIDESIN
INDIA

3. Content:
About a farmer
Why should we talk about farmer
suicides
Reasons for farmer suicides in India
Drought
Monsoons
Lack of proper irrigation
Ground water
Lack of power supply
Expensive technologies
Crop failure
Impact of suicides
Preventive measures

4. WHO IS A FARMER?
• A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a
person engaged in agriculture, raising living
organisms for food or raw materials (doing
some combination of raising
field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry,or
other livestock).
• A farmer might own the farmed land or
might work as a labourer on land owned by
others.
• In advanced economies, a farmer is usually
a farm owner, while employees of the farm
are known as farm workers or farmhands

5. WHY SHOULD WE TALKABOUTFARMER'S
SUICIDES
• Agriculture sector has a pivotal role in Indian economy.
• The share of agriculture sector in G.D.P
. of India was 44.0%during
1973-74.
• Agriculture provides the principal means of livelihood for over 60
percent of India's population.
• InIndian planning agriculture sector ignored except in a few five years
plan.

6. REASONS FORFARMER'S
SUICIDEININDIA

7. DROUGHT
• The most immediate consequence
of drought is a fall in crop
production, due to inadequate and
poorly distributed rainfall. Farmers
are faced with harvests that are too
small to both feed their families,
fodder supplies from crop residues to
feed their livestock and fulfil their
other commitments forcing them to
drastic measures. The drastic
measures can include changing
jobs orsuicides.

8. MONSOONS
• Farmers in India over dependence on the
monsoons.
• There isregular break downin the
meteorological cycle ofrainfall,.
• In India, 93%of area fall under dry land
farming, which means totally dependent
on the rainfall as irrigation systems are
scarce, not equally spread and are not
efficient
• Sometimes more thannormal rainscauses
flood which also destroys the crop.

9. LACK OF PROPER
IRRIGATION
• Indian farmers are heavily
dependent on monsoons,. They
don’t have any source for proper
irrigation farming. Irrigationfarming
is when crops are grown with the
help of irrigation systems by
supplying water to land through
rivers, reservoirs, tanks, and wels.
• 58%of farmers having committed
suicides had absolutely no
irrigation facilities.

10. GROUNDWATER
• Due to overdependence
on groundwater for all
purposes domestic or
industrial and with no law
against it in India, ground
water table is decreasing
at an alarming rate. Many
farmers due to lack of
proper irrigation systems,
use tube wells and are
now facing problems due
to it.

11. LACK OF POWER
SUPPLY
 Many agriculture tasks related to
the power/electric dependent.
 Costly or no electricity supply
proves to a significant problem.

12. EXPENSIVE
TECHNOLOGIES
• New technologies are better but they come with
a big price tags, which are either too costly to be
bought or they get their money through loans
which again push them into debt.

13. CROP
FAILURE
• There are many different reasons for
crop failure
Late Monsoon
Heavy Monsoon
Pests,Insects
Natural Calamity
Personal Enmity
Climate Change
Drought

14. IMPACT OFSUICIDES
• Suicides leads to loss of sole breadwinner in the family.
• Widows burdened with the new responsibility as the sole breadwinner.
• Itcauses a lot of psychological distress to family.
• There is increased socialstigma.
• Impact on children’s education.
• Other family members attempting suicides.
• Children sometimes lose both parents to suicide, forcing their
education to a halt, especially if they have to work in order to
provide for theirneeds.
• The families moves from farm labor to permanent labor.
• Thisalso leads to child labour and detoriation of physical health

15. PREVENTIVEMEASURES
 Building social systems & strengthening.
 Focus on creating alternate livelihoods.
 Encourage multiple cropping.
 Generate awareness pesticide usage.
 Provide timely government inputs to the farmers.
 Provide quality of seeds.
 Government inadvance should state the premium price for
the crops.

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