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The problem of farmers suicides, also known as the Agrarian crisis is the rampant phenomenon of suicides among Indian farmers from 1990 to the present. It has been exacerbated by the inability to repay growing debt, often taken from local moneylenders and microcredit banks to pay for high priced high yield seeds marketed by MNCs and the non-implementation of mininimum support prices (MSP) by state governments. During the duration from 1998 to 2018, it has resulted in the suicides of 300,000 farmers in the country, often by drinking pesticides themselves.[1]
India is an agrarian country with around 70% of its people depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture. Farmer suicides account for 11.2% of all suicides in India.[2] 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.[3][4][5] There are also accusation of states manipulating the data on farmer suicides.[6]
Starting in the 1990s, agriculture in India has declined at a devastating rate. This has had a calamitous impact on the livelihoods associated with agriculture. Symptoms of this agrarian distress, unprecedented in post-Independent India, is a high rate of suicides amongst farmers. The crisis is characterised by low institutionalised credit to small farmers.[7]
As per official government figures, between 1995 and 2014, nearly 3 lakh (296,438) farmers have committed suicide in India. Information from agriculturists in India suggest that real figures are nearly 10 times higher.[8] On average, 3,685 farmers in Maharashtra state took their lives every year between 2004-13.[9]
According to P. Sainath, a leading Indian journalist who reports on the rural India and its unprecedented economic crisis, for the first time as per 2011 Census of India urban India added more to its population than rural India. This implies that millions of people earlier engaged in agriculture are roaming around the India in "footloose migration" search for daily wages. This points to the destruction of livelihoods in the predominantly agrarian rural India.[10] Another evidence for a major agrarian crisis in India is the very high rate in which people are leaving occupations associated with farming[11]
In 2014, the National Crime Records Bureau of India reported 5,650 farmer suicides.[2] The highest number of farmer suicides were recorded in 2004 when 18,241 farmers committed suicide.[12] 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.[13]
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they were suicide because the cost of crop is down and and then other thing is that the cost of pesticides and weedicides are very high and there is loss of the tractors and other things to doing the farming and many other of the things and the things is that like the poor farmer they can do the traditional farming and that doesn't give them a good rupees so that they think they can not have money so how they can survive so they can suicide explanation: of this is that their some rich farmers can do the new farming that isn't do the traditional farming so that they are more rich and the poor farmer they can doesn't do the farming like rich people do the new farming style which can done by the thresher and leveler and tractors and many other things thank you have a nice day