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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmer suicides up 42% between 2014 & 2015 -Priyanka Kakodkar

Farmer suicides up 42% between 2014 & 2015 -Priyanka Kakodkar

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published Published on Jan 6, 2017   modified Modified on Jan 6, 2017
-The Times of India

MUMBAI: Farmer suicides in the country rose by 42% between 2014 and 2015, according to newly released data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). It recorded 5,650 suicides by farmers and cultivators in 2014. The figure rose to 8,007 in the latest data.

Several states across the country battled severe drought in both 2014 and 2015. Some, including Maharashtra, experienced two successive years of drought.

With 3,030 cases, Maharashtra recorded the highest number of farmer suicides in the country (37.8%). Telangana was second, with 1,358 cases, and Karnataka third with 1,197. Six states of Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka accounted for 94.1% of total farmer suicides.

In fact, farmer suicides shot up even though as many as nine states and seven Union territories recorded no case at all in the NCRB figures.

The states which reported nil farmer suicides in 2015 include Bihar, West Bengal, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Nagaland and Uttarakhand.

"Highly erratic and inadequate monsoon in the last two-three years has aggravated problems for persons engaged in the farming sector. Manifestations of these in extreme situations can be seen in the form of farmers' suicides," the report said.

While the data showed a sharp rise in suicides by farmers, it also recorded a steep 31.5% decline in suicides by agricultural labourers in the country during the same period.

This category was introduced by the NCRB in 2014, a move which was criticised as an attempt to reduce the number recorded as "farmer suicides". The suicides by agricultural labourers declined from 6,710 cases in 2014 to 4,595 in 2015.

Maharashtra recorded the highest number of suicides in the category of agricultural labourers as well, accounting for 1,261 cases. Madhya Pradesh followed next with 709 suicides and then Tamil Nadu with 604 cases. The overall number of suicides in the farming sector in the country recorded a marginal 2% increase. The number of suicides by those in the farming sector rose from 12,360 in 2014 to 12,602 in 2015, according to the data. The figures have risen only marginally, given the major decline recorded in the number of suicides of agricultural labourers.

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The Times of India, 6 January, 2017, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/farmer-suicides-up-42-between-2014-2015/articleshow/56363591.cms


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