Farmer suicide is a major crisis in India, with over 284,000 farmers taking their own lives since 1995. The highest rates are in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh. Suicides are most common among male farmers aged 30-59 cultivating cotton. Farmers are struggling due to debt, crop failures, lack of irrigation, declining prices, and high costs of farming inputs. Recommendations to address the issue include comprehensive insurance, sustainable farming practices, regulated seed and pesticide suppliers, improved credit systems, and diversifying livelihoods.
Here you will get the reason behind the farmer suicide and also the prevention step taken by government and step which should be taken by government and us also.
This presentation is all about the problems that farmers face in India. About there suicide issues , solutions to them, Government schemes and much more to help farmers and to understand there situation and solutions to there problem
Here you will get the reason behind the farmer suicide and also the prevention step taken by government and step which should be taken by government and us also.
This presentation is all about the problems that farmers face in India. About there suicide issues , solutions to them, Government schemes and much more to help farmers and to understand there situation and solutions to there problem
Farmers suicides in India(Maharashtra)Jobin Mathew
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By this presentation i want to draw your attention towards the reasons of farmer suicides, and the actions which may be taken by the government to stop farmers from committing suicides because this is the high time we really need to do something to stop the suicides.
India is considered as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Agriculture is the mother of most of the economies in the world. Much of its influence is on the other sectors - industry and service. India is the second largest in farm output. Hence, India’s economic security continues to be predicated upon the agriculture sector, and the situation is not likely to change in the near future. Even today, the share of agriculture in employment is about 49% of the population, as against around 75% at the time of independence. There are several reasons like vicious cycle of poverty, crops failure, illiteracy, high indebtedness, low level of income, low level technology, Government Policies, addiction to alcohol, domestic affairs, old traditions, pessimistic outlook of farmers etc. are some of the main reasons for agricultural crisis and farmers suicides in India. Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala are the top most five states in India in farmers suicides. The need of the hour is protect our farmers by all means, thus avoiding their suicides and agrarian crisis. This Paper is an attempt to focus attention on causes of agricultural crisis and farmer suicides in India with special reference to Telangana.
Farmer's distress in India: Agricultural stats, Challenge 2050, status of Indian Farmers, Farmer's suicide, Immediate reasons for farmer's distress, Unsuspicious factors causing agrarian distress in long run
Farmers suicides in India(Maharashtra)Jobin Mathew
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By this presentation i want to draw your attention towards the reasons of farmer suicides, and the actions which may be taken by the government to stop farmers from committing suicides because this is the high time we really need to do something to stop the suicides.
India is considered as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Agriculture is the mother of most of the economies in the world. Much of its influence is on the other sectors - industry and service. India is the second largest in farm output. Hence, India’s economic security continues to be predicated upon the agriculture sector, and the situation is not likely to change in the near future. Even today, the share of agriculture in employment is about 49% of the population, as against around 75% at the time of independence. There are several reasons like vicious cycle of poverty, crops failure, illiteracy, high indebtedness, low level of income, low level technology, Government Policies, addiction to alcohol, domestic affairs, old traditions, pessimistic outlook of farmers etc. are some of the main reasons for agricultural crisis and farmers suicides in India. Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala are the top most five states in India in farmers suicides. The need of the hour is protect our farmers by all means, thus avoiding their suicides and agrarian crisis. This Paper is an attempt to focus attention on causes of agricultural crisis and farmer suicides in India with special reference to Telangana.
Farmer's distress in India: Agricultural stats, Challenge 2050, status of Indian Farmers, Farmer's suicide, Immediate reasons for farmer's distress, Unsuspicious factors causing agrarian distress in long run
Farmer Suicide in India as well as in Maharashtra, statistics, rate, problems , reseans, remedies, present situation, farmer schemes, model for farmer moral,
India is considered as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Agriculture is the mother of most of the economies in the world. Much of its influence is on the other sectors - industry and service. India is the second largest in farm output after China. Hence, India’s economic security continues to be predicated upon the agriculture sector, and the situation is not likely to change in the near future. Even today, the share of agriculture in employment is about 49% of the population, as against around 75% at the time of independence and it is the principal source of livelihood for more than 58% of the population. The share of agriculture in GDP is 17%. It accounts for 7.68 percent of total global agricultural output. Contribution of Agriculture sector in Indian economy is much higher than world's average (6.1%). China with lesser cultivable land produces double the food grains, i.e. 607 million tons in 2015 -16 as compared with India’s 252 million tons in 2015-16. Farmer suicides account for 11.2% of all suicides in India. GOI informed Supreme Court over 12,000 farmer suicides per year since 2013. As of 2017, large numbers of farmer suicides have occurred in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, M.P, Bihar, UP, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand. According to economist K. Nagaraj, author of the biggest study on Indian farm suicides, even though the farmer population shrinks, the number of farmer suicides are rising in India. The present cropping intensity of 136% has registered an increase of only 25% since independence. Further, in our country, rain fed dry lands constitute 65% of the total net sown area. There is an unprecedented degradation of land (107 million ha) and groundwater resource, and also fall in the rate of growth of total factor productivity. Vicious cycle of poverty, crops failure, illiteracy, high indebtedness, low level of income, low level technology, Government Policies, addiction to alcohol, domestic affairs, old traditions, pessimistic outlook of farmers etc. are other main reasons for agricultural crisis and farmers suicides in India. Agricultural productivity has to be doubled to meet growing demands of the population by 2050. Prof M.S. Swaminathan, a noted Agricultural Scientist said that half of the farmers in the country want to quit farming. Thus, there is an urgent need to identify the severity of the problems of agricultural crisis and farmer suicides in India and ponder over it to find out solutions. The need of the hour is to protect our farmers by all means, thus avoiding their suicides and agrarian crisis. This Paper is an attempt to focus attention on causes of agricultural crisis and farmer suicides in India with special reference to Telangana.
A Study on the Agriculture Sector and the Problems Associated with it which h...ijtsrd
Farmers are the main pillars of Indian economy and a source of food security for the whole nation. Farmers suicide has emerged as a serious problem today in India, each year thousands of farmers commit suicide due to lower income and heavy debt, they don't have access to market, new technologies and irritation facilities, their land is being taken away by private sectors, Contract farming, small holding of lands, climate change, food shortage, water, issues of droughts and floods have all affected the live of the farmers in a miserable way ,the income from cultivate is so low that they are now shifting from farms to non farms sector for earning, 76 of the farmers have left cultivation, marginalised and small holder farmers are the worst affected by it. The government has launched many schemes and brought in technology advancement still those facilities have not reduced the number of suicide cases, its growing at a rapid speed. Farmers today belongs to the most vulnerable section of the society. We need to all farmers access to the market, create better infrastructure and road connectivity followed by free health care and education provisions for the farmers and their families, special food package and medical insurance for farmers and their families. Dr. Sumanta Bhattacharya | Dr. Heera Lal | Bhavneet Kaur Sachdev "A Study on the Agriculture Sector and the Problems Associated with it which has an Impact on the Farmers" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46464.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/46464/a-study-on-the-agriculture-sector-and-the-problems-associated-with-it-which-has-an-impact-on-the-farmers/dr-sumanta-bhattacharya
Agriculture is the main stay for more than 60% of
Indian population. Agriculture has been attributed to failure
of monsoons and gambling with rainfall. More than 80% of
farmers belongs to the category of marginal and small scale
farmers. The failure of monsoon lead to draught, lack of
better prices and exploitation by the middleman are making
the farmer caught by debt crop.
The unbearable debt burden on the one side and
apathy by the administrators and policy makers to
understand suicides in real terms making the farmer to
commit suicide. Further, the impact of globalisation,
increased cost of cultivation making the farmers to commit
suicide without finding best other alternatives to lead a
normal life.
The need of the hour is to declare agriculture
similar to manufacturing industry and to provide similar
status so that innovative agricultural activities may be
started.
This presentation highlights the issue of farmer suicides in India, the difficulties they face, our interventions to address their issues and its impact on them.
How we can improve the status of women in agriculture and bring visibility to women farmers. The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index placed India 112th out of 153 nations in 2020. Women have the lowest levels of economic involvement and prospects, ranking 149th out of 153 nations (World Economic Forum 2020).
The position of farmers in India is becoming questionable as the time is passing by. India is developing in all the aspects but there is no significant decline in the suicides committed by the farmers in the country. The 'real heroes' of our nation that are 'farmers and soldiers' are now been forgotten and the 'fake heroes' of the bollywood are now been worshipped. If the prices of agricultural commodities increase, everyone starts complaining but no one bothers about spending so much on branded clothes and watching movies in the theatres. The paper focuses on the reasons behind the farmers of India are committing suicide and some of the steps that should be taken by the government in order to minimize the cases of farmer suicide. The government has made it a political issue rather than an issue worth considering. It also focuses on advantages of agriculture in a developing nation like India and its contribution to the economic growth of our country. Vayu Tewari ""Farmers' Suicide in India"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2 , February 2020,
URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29977.pdf
Paper Url : https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/social-science/29977/farmers%E2%80%99-suicide-in-india/vayu-tewari
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3. Agenda
Indian Farmer’s Crisis: History and Background
Why, Where and How is it happening?
Cotton Farmers
Vidarbha, State of Maharashtra
Case Study
Responses to farmers' suicides
Suggestions & Recommendations to alleviate the
present situation
Conclusion
References
4. Indian Farmer’s Crisis:
History and Background
The Indian, largest body of surviving small farmers in the
world, today faces a crisis of extinction.
Farming Dislinked and Linked
Chemicals and Drought produce zero yield in late 1980s
1997 witnessed the first emergence of farm suicides in India.
In 1998, the World Bank’s structural adjustment policies
forced India to open up its seed sector to global
corporations.
5. Why is it happening?
A shift from ‘food first to trade first’ &‘farmer first to
corporate first’.
Dramatic fall in prices of farm produce as a result of
free trade policies of the WTO.
The deficiencies in institutional and infrastructures
factor
Deregulation of markets and withdrawal of state from
effective price regulation, leading to collapse in price
of farm commodities.
6. The Tipping-point
A crop failure, an unexpected health expense or the
marriage of a daughter are perilous to the livelihood of
these farmers
Suicide has spread like an epidemic among the
distraught farmers.
Many farmers have committed suicide by drinking the
very pesticides that no longer work on their crops.
7. Where is it happening?
Maharashtra
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
Madhya Pradesh
Kerala
Uttar Pradesh
Gujarat
8. Where is it happening?
Maharashtra
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
Madhya Pradesh
Kerala
Uttar Pradesh
Gujarat
Source: http://agrariancrisis.in
9. The number of farmers
committing suicide is staggering
Total 2,84,694 farmers have taken their
lives since 1995 -2012 in 18 years.
The farmers’ suicide rate (FSR/SMR) was
16.3 per 100,000 farmers in 2012.
On average, there has been one farmer’s
suicide every 42 minutes since 2012.
68 per cent of all the 13,754 (in 2012) farm
suicides took place in ‘Big 4’
Source: NCRB, 2012 & Report of Prof. K. Nagraj of Madras Institute of Dev. Studies
11. Farmer Suicide: no end to despair
2012
3,786
2,572
1,875
1,081
1,172
745
499
564
270
276
344
1
4
10
10
10
11
14
18
19
68
75
119
146
29
Goa
Chhattisgarh
Jammu & Kashmir
Mizoram
Meghalaya
Arunachal Pradesh
Uttarakhand
Tripura
Sikkim
Himachal Pradesh
Bihar
Punjab
Jharkhand
Odisha
Rajasthan
Haryana
Assam
Tamil Nadu
Gujarat
Uttar Pradesh
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Karnataka
Andhra Pradesh
Maharashtra
Source: Wikipedia
12. Common features in majority
of suicides
91-94 % of suicides are by family heads
91-97 % of those who committed suicide
are males
84 to 89 percent are married
98 percent had no access to irrigation
13. Age Classification of Suicide Victims
3409
9310
1035
10000
9000
8000
7000
6000
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
Upto 29 Years 30 to 59 Years 60 Years & Above
Source: http://www.downtoearth.org.in
14. Women farmer, too, commit suicide
Tough battles for bank
loans
Schooled herself in seeds
and fertilizers
Drought and Crop Failed
No Family member go
hungry
Undefined Sacrifice
14%
86%
Farmer Suicide Cases (Female)
Farmer Suicide Cases (Male)
Source: http://www.downtoearth.org.in
15. How is it happening?
Deterioration of economic condition
Continuous crop failure
Improper and unstable price
Bank loan
High cost technology
Family expenditure
Marriage expenditure
Government Support
16. Problems in Agriculture Supply Chain
Farmer
30%
Village
Commission
Agent
15%
District
Commission
Agent
20%
Processor
15%
Wholesaler
5%
Retailer
15%
Consumer
100%
Source: Farm Digest Journal
17. Cotton Farmers
2/3rd of farm suicides take place in 4
cotton-growing States
Bt cotton is a genetically modified (GM) crop
Clone Seeds Certification process and
Regulation on companies and Dealers
Role of State Government
Credit System and Debt Trap
Increasing cost of agriculture inputs and
Reduced price of agriculture produces
18. Pesticide Trap Affect Farmer
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19. Effects of Fiscal deficit on credit cycle
& farmers suicide
Source: http://www.arthakranti.org/
20. Vidarbha, State of Maharashtra
Home to 3.2 million cotton farmers.
Geographical Status
Major Affected Districts
farmers’ suicide still 2012
One suicide in every eight hours
21. Age Group of the suicide farmers
in Vidarbha
1%
35%
52%
12%
0-19 Year
20-39 Year
40-59 Year
Above 60
Years
Source: Farmers Suicides in Vidarbha, By Dr. Sangita Warade
22. Educational Status of the suicide
farmers in Vidarbha
12%
19%
19%
42%
8% Illiterate
Primary School
Middle School
High School
College
Source: Farmers Suicides in Vidarbha, By Dr. Sangita Warade
23. Distribution of Farmers as per size of
holding (Ha) in Vidharbha
16%
17%
3%
31% 33%
0-0.99
1-1.99
2-3.99
4-9.99
Above 10
Source: Farmers Suicides in Vidarbha, By Dr. Sangita Warade
24. Case Study in Vidarbha-1
This family belongs to the SC group. The total landholding is 2 acres,
with one acre irrigated. The major crops are cotton, jowar, tur, wheat
and groundnut. He was a cultivator and a labourer. He belonged to the
below poverty line (BPL) group. He incurred a loan of Rs. 45,000/-
for the purchase of a bullock cart, but was unable to pay the loan for
the last seven years. He had a fall from the tractor and was not able to
work after that. Money had to be spent for his treatment. He then
stayed with a cultivator as a labourer. He returned back to his house
and committed suicide on 05.11.09.
No government compensation was offered to the family.
25. Case Study in Vidarbha-2
This family belongs to the high caste group. The total landholding is
four acres. The major crops are cotton, jowar and tur. He had incurred
loans from the moneylender, bank and relatives to the tune of
Rs. 90,000/- since the last five years and had turned a defaulter on all
the loans since the last four years. Crop failure, compounded by
expenditure incurred due to marriage, and an appendicitis operation
led to his suicide on 18.04.10. His younger son has sold of the property
and left the village.
No government compensation was offered to the family
26. Responses to farmers' suicides
2006 relief package
Agricultural debt waiver and debt relief scheme, 2008
Maharashtra Bill to regulate farmer loan terms, 2008
Maharashtra relief package, 2010
Kerala Farmers’ Debt Relief Commission (Amendment)
Bill, 2012
2013 diversify income sources package
27. Suggestions & Recommendations to
alleviate the present situation
A comprehensive Agricultural Insurance Scheme
Organic farming and Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Biodiversity must be the basis of production to reduce
vulnerability to climate and markets.
Strongest action under Indian Penal Code should be taken
against suppliers and manufactures of spurious pesticides.
Suppliers of spurious/inferior seeds must be
punished
28. Suggestions & Recommendations to
alleviate the present situation
Institutionalized Credit System to the farmers must
be simplified.
Role Gram Panchayats
Extension agencies with a vision of eco-friendly sustainable
development.
The role of commission agents, traders and intermediaries
should be minimized
Agriculture policy needs to shift from its current bias of
‘corporates first’ to ‘farmers first’.
29. Conclusion
From Suicide Relief to Suicide Prevention
Multiple Livelihood Opportunities
Traditional Knowledge & Modern Science
Before advising farmers, listen to them
Social and Political Support toward famer
30. References
Sainath P.: “Farmers suicides”: Case Study of Prof. Nagraj K. (Madras Institute of Dev. Studies):
Website http://www.indiatogather.org/ 2012/nov/psa-mids1.htm
Uma Sudhir: “Women farmers who commit suicide ignored by state”:
Website http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/
Swaminathan M.S. (2010): “From Green to Evergreen Revolution”:
New Delhi :Academic Foundation.
Deshpande R.S. and Saroj Arora (2010): “Agrarian Crisis and Farmer Suicides”:
New Delhi: SAGE Publications.
YASHADA, TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) and Sakal Agro Won Vidarbha
Agrarian crisis/ Relief Package/ Social Watch Report/ Green Earth/ Help Age India
Agrarian Crisis - nature, causes & remedies.
Aparna Pallavi: “farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra”:
Website http://www.downtoearth.org.in/
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