Farmers in India often live in poor conditions and low wages, despite being essential to agriculture. Their lives are difficult, dependent on nature, and economically precarious. When crops fail due to drought, flooding, or oversupply, farmers can fall into debt and destitution. Though comprising the majority of the population at independence, farmers now only make up 9% of India's population. Many face exploitation by banks and corporations seeking their land. Over 300,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide since 1995 due to debt and crop failures. Farmers play a vital role but receive little support from policies that favor large businesses instead of agricultural stability and prosperity.

1. FARMERS
PRESENTED BY
S.INDHU

2. POOR CONDITION OF
FARMERS
oThe poor farmers without a farm life a miserable life.
oThe work on daily wages on the farms on others and their wages
are too low.
oThey belong to the class of have-nots , although they are he
backbone of agriculture.
oThey are the worst victims of our society.

3. ECONOMIC FACTORS
A farmer earns money by selling his crops,They
remain happy if the crops are good but, if the crops
fail, then his life becomes miserable.
A farmer suffers even if there is a abnormal increase
in production homogenously at all places in such
cases the selling price of the crops goes down and the
excess crops get wasted.

4. TOUGH LIFE OF FARMERS
• The life of a farmer is very tough. He works very hard day and night in all
seasons.
• During summer, they works under the heat of the sun.
• During winter season,they gets wet while ploughing the field.
• During winter, they carries on his hard work inspite of the dull and cold
weather.

5. DEPENDENT UPON NATURE
• The life of a farmer is much dependent upon forces o nature.
• For agriculture,adequate monsoon is required .
• If the rainfall is adequate, the agricultural output would be good.

6. Then & Now
 At the time of independence there were more than 55% people involved in farming and
now, their number has decreased to 9% only.
 One of India’s former prime minister LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI gave slogan “Jai kisan
jai jawan” in 1965
 Today,everyone looks to be more interested in the land of farmers than helping them.
 Big corporations want land to develope smart cities,factories,highways,large scale
farming,etc and they need cheap labour to work in their factories
 Our governments are also favouring big business houses by weakning the Indian farmers

7. In India there is a insurance on cars , scooters
and bike but not for Indian farmers life

8. • In India where you can get easy vehicles loans or can buy a
car at 7% interest rate but if you want to buy a tractor of
rupees 4,00,000 and you have to pay 12.5% interest rate .
• India is an agrarian country with around 60% of its people
depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture.
• Being an agriculture country it is very shameful for our
indian government that from 1995-2013, a total of 2,96,438
farmers have killed themselves in India

9. COMMITING SUICIDE
• A suicide is actually about the loss of hope,hope that things can improve
ever,hope that things will be fine later, hope that I can fight through this.
• The farmers suicides were totally unneccesary where in most cases, the
result of man made policies,not natural calamities.
• It is not droughts and floods which forced farmers so much to take their
lives, as the government’s intervention or the lack of it.
• Our policy decisions are totally driven towards creating inequality and
driving our farmers to the coffin.

10. BANK BEHAVIOUR
• Worse is the way our banks behave many of the refuse
to give loans to farmers,unless say the punchayat
intervenes.
• Sometimes the head of the panchayat colludes with
banks to ensure that people have to pay bribes to get
loans, sometimes the bank officials ask for bribes on
their own.
• Because most rural areas just have one bank,it is
difficult to get loans at lower interest rates in many
cases without paying bribes.

11. CAUSES OF HYDROCARBON PROJECT
This hydrocarbon project would pose severe environmental problems and
adversely affect the livehood of farmers in and around neduvasal.
The farmers also claimed that the fertility of the land will be affected.
There is also apprehension regarding the lowering of ground water level.
The displacement of habitation of the people in the village.
The villagers also fear that this project may disturb the interface of the seawater
and groundwater that may later on result in the intrusion of saline water to the
fresh water sources.

13. •Atleast once in your life you will need a doctor,lawyer,an
architect,but everyday 3times a day you will need a farmer

14. CRY OF FARMER

15. GIVE A VOICE FOR OUR FARMERS
THANK YOU EVERYONE… 