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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 10% drop in farm suicides, 11,000 cases in 2016: Govt -Vishwa Mohan

10% drop in farm suicides, 11,000 cases in 2016: Govt -Vishwa Mohan

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published Published on Mar 22, 2018   modified Modified on Mar 22, 2018
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Farmer suicides declined by nearly 10% in 2016 as compared to a year earlier, though the rate at which farmers took their lives continued to be at least one every hour. Maharashtra continues to be at the top in recording the highest number of farmer suicides in India.

Provisional figures for the year 2016, disclosed by agriculture ministry in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, show that the country recorded 11,370 farmers’ (farm labourers and cultivators) suicides as compared to 12,602 in 2015.

The decline may be attributed to better rainfall in 2016 which witnessed record production of kharif (summer sown) crops. In contrast, 2015 was the second consecutive drought year after 2014. A shortfall of 10% or more of rainfall for the entire monsoon season - June to September - is considered a drought year.

The figures, however, show that the benefit of record production could not probably lessen the distress of farm labourers as suicides among them increased from 4,595 in 2015 to 5,019 in 2016. The overall decline was seen due to decline in the number of suicides among cultivators - from 8,007 in 2015 to 6,351 in 2016.

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The Times of India, 22 March, 2018, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/10-drop-in-farm-suicides-11000-cases-in-2016-govt/articleshow/63405637.cms


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