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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Deaths by Suicide Among Farmers in Punjab Signal the Dire Need For Reform -Darshan Pal

Deaths by Suicide Among Farmers in Punjab Signal the Dire Need For Reform -Darshan Pal

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published Published on Jul 6, 2022   modified Modified on Jul 11, 2022

-TheWire.in

A recent report on farmer suicides in Punjab reveals the circumstances which lead farmers and farm labourers to take their own lives, debunks popular myths regarding the same, and points to policy measures needed to tackle the problem.

Suicides are a sign of a deep crisis in a society. And in Punjab’s so-called ‘agriculturally developed society’, suicides of farmers and farm labourers have been taking place unabated for the last two decades.

On June 18, 2022. a report regarding the phenomenon in Punjab by a team of prominent economists from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, comprising Sukhpal Singh, Manjeet Kaur and H.S. Kingra, was published in Economic and Political Weekly, confirming that the state is undergoing a deep farm crisis.

This report is based on a door-to-door survey of the families of individuals who died by suicide in six districts of Punjab from 2000-2018. In this time, these districts saw 16,594 suicides, of which 9,291 were farmers and 7,303 were farm labourers.

According to the report, Sangrur – Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s home district – topped the list with a total of 2,506 farmers’ suicides in the given time frame. Mansa district came in second with 2,098 farmer suicides, followed by Bathinda, Barnala, Moga and Ludhiana districts with 1,956, 1,126, 880 and 725 suicides, respectively.

The year with the highest number of such suicides was 2008 (630), after which the number of deaths by suicide among farmers began to decline year-by-year. The report makes evident that the ‘debt waiver scheme’ of the Manmohan Singh government that year was one of the factors that led to this decline.

Unfortunately, deaths by suicide among farmers started to increase again after that, reaching another peak in 2015 (515). The reason behind this increase was the failure of the Bt cotton crop due to pest attacks.

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TheWire.in, 6 July, 2022, https://thewire.in/agriculture/farmer-suicides-in-punjab-signal-the-dire-need-for-reform-in-the-sector


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