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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Small farmers most prone to suicide, show government data -Deeptiman Tiwary

Small farmers most prone to suicide, show government data -Deeptiman Tiwary

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published Published on Jan 10, 2017   modified Modified on Jan 10, 2017
-The Indian Express

Maharashtra led all states in farmer suicide numbers in 2015, according to NCRB figures.

New Delhi:
More than 72% of farmers who commit suicide have less than two hectares of land, latest data on farmer suicides compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) show. According to the NCRB report for the year 2015, less than 2% of farmers who committed suicide were large farmers with more than 10 hectares of land.

A hectare of land is roughly equivalent to 2.5 acres.

Medium farmers, who have between 2 hectares and 10 hectares of land, contributed a fourth of the 8,007 farmer suicides in the country in 2015.

It’s not as though the smaller the farmer the more likely he is to commit suicide due to farm distress. According to the NCRB data, small farmers were 45.2% of all farmer victims, while marginal farmers made up 27.4%.

According to the latest (2010-11) landholding census by the Ministry of Agriculture, 67.1% of all landholdings are marginal — smaller than 1 hectare — while 17.9% are small (1-2 hectares). Medium (2-10 hectares) and large (over 10 hectares) holdings are 14.3% and 0.7% of the total respectively.

However, the share of land under cultivation by marginal and small farmers is much smaller. The census shows that the operational holding (i.e., the area under cultivation) with marginal farmers is 22.5%, with small farmers it is 22.1%, with medium farmers it is 44.8%, and with large farmers it is 10.6%.

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The Indian Express, 10 January, 2017, http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/stories-in-numbers-small-farmers-most-prone-to-suicide-show-govt-data-maharashtra-drought-waterless-marathwada-4467060/


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