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FARMERS SUICIDE
By- Manvendra pratap singhRoll no-350
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Statistics on farmer suicides
• On average, one Indian farmer committed suicide every 32 minutes.
• Since 2002, this has become one suicide every 30 minutes.
• One farmer took his or her life every 53 minutes between 1997 and 2005 in just the States of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and including Chhattisgarh.
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Reasons for Farmers suicides
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Over dependence on the monsoons
• Break down in the meteorological cycle of rainfall.
• 93% of area under dry land farming. Which means, totally dependent on the rainfall.
• Lack of proper irrigation 98% of farmers having committed suicides had absolutely no irrigation facilities.
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Lack of financial support
• Out of 17.64 Lakh farmers only (25.3%) farmers could avail institutional finance.
• Private money lenders charge high interest rates between 48-60% p.a.
• Cooperative sector brought down their interest rates to 7%, even then the farmers are taking loans from the private individuals.
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The Huffington Post notes
• 2009 was the worst figure for farm suicides.• More than 17,368 India farmers killed
themselves.• And an increase of 1,172 from the previous
year's figure.” Notably, there was also a huge drought in 2009.
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Conclusion
• Provide proper institutional financial support to farmers.
• Provide a good crop insurance scheme in cases of crop failure
• Provide genuine relief to the affected farmers.
• Providing proper irrigation facility and subsidies.
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