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Article on Farmers Suicides in India

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Answered by suhanisharma

THE TERRIBLE TRUTH BEHIND THE FARMER SUICIDES
BY: Sapphire

The repeated news about farmers’ suicides is hurting the conscience of the country. Everyone feel sad about this and wonder as to how to prevent this extremely disturbing happening.

While the politicians quarrel among themselves as to who is responsible for this vexed issue and try to score political point over each other, certainly there are firm views among cross section of Indians on the subject.200,000 farmers have ended their lives since 1997.

Farmers' suicides are the most tragic and dramatic symptom of the crisis of survival faced by Indian peasants.

some of the problems faced by farmers are:

• Problems in maintaining farm livestock owing to increasing costs
• Problems in getting credit at good terms and conditions because of reluctance of commercial banks
• Lack of proper irrigation
• Absence of mechanisation
• Insufficient transport facilities

Following are certain solutions that can help the farmers:

• They need to be educated about various facets of farming
• Centres of excellence need to be set up to help them
• Agricultural universities need to discover new science-based practices and technologies
• Insurance is needed
• They need to be given better access to credit and at better terms and conditions
• Landholdings should be consolidated
• Organic manure should be used
• Mechanisation is needed
• Markets should be regulated

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Answered by SHRUTHIKA01

In 2014, the National Crime Records Bureau of India reported 5,650 farmer suicides.The highest number of farmer suicides were recorded in 2004 when 18,241 farmers committed suicide. The farmers suicide rate in India has ranged between 1.4 and 1.8 per 100,000 total population, over a 10-year period through 2005.

India is an agrarian country with around 60% of its people depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture. Farmer suicides account for 11.2% of all suicides in India.Activists and scholars have offered a number of conflicting reasons for farmer suicides, such as monsoon failure, high debt burdens, government policies, public mental health, personal issues and family problems. There are also accusation of states manipulating the data on farmer suicides

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