Write any three reasons why farmers are comitting sucidies
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✳️Economic (National):
➡️Let's face it, our national agrarian policy - run by a cricket mogul - is in shambles. It is divisive, it does not account for most on-ground problems, it is determined by lobbies and caste-class groups. Look at the difference in Imp-Ex duty on cotton and sugar. Look at the loans given out by NABARD to certain class-caste groups. Look at the lop-sided spread of infrastructure for agriculture in different swathes of the country.
✳️Social:
➡️ The farmer has to live up to certain expectations of his caste and class. A landowning farmer, even despite the severest drought will not work as hired labour. A medium land-holding farmer believes he needs to celebrate his children's weddings at a certain scale. A landless labourer's daily wage is the only way for her to feed the family. In many instances, the landlessness is because of caste
✳️Personal:
➡️Yes, like Ved points out farmers are also people, and owing to the stress of personal life, they may not need a special "agrarian" reason to commit suicide. However farmers have the added burden of a very real agrarian crisis - non-farmers do not face this same burden. Likening farmers and their suicides to national and international indices (as has done) is a facetious method to downplay it.
the reasons are as follows
floods, drought, debt, use of genetically modified seed, public health, use of lower quantity pesticides due to less investments producing a decreased yield.