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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why There Is A Rise In Farm Labour Suicides -Akhil Alha

Why There Is A Rise In Farm Labour Suicides -Akhil Alha

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published Published on Aug 2, 2018   modified Modified on Aug 2, 2018
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The collection of separate figures for suicides of farmers and farm labour has started in 2014, the year in which there were 5650 farmers committed suicides as against 6710 cases of farm labour suicides.

According to the latest figures released by the government, farmer suicides in 2016 have come down to 6351 from 8007 in 2015, a drop of 21 per cent.  Suicides among agricultural labourers, however, have gone up by about 10 per cent, from 4,595 farm labour suicides in 2015 to 5,019 in 2016.

These figures were procured by National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) and released by Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh in Rajya Sabha in response to a question. The collection of separate figures for suicides of farmers and farm labourers started in 2014, the year 5650 farmers committed suicides as against 6710 cases of farm labour suicides.

The earlier practice was to collect figures for suicides in the ‘farming sector’ which included farmers and farm labour. The figures show that except Maharashtra, most of the states severely affected by the agrarian crisis (Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Kerala) have registered a rise in farm labour suicides in 2016.

Why are farm labourers committing suicides? A couple of points are worth a mention here. The World Bank (2015) statistics shows that 6.84 per cent of the rural population in India is ‘extremely poor’. Agricultural labour constitutes 40 per cent of this extremely poor population followed by non-farm labour (33 per cent) and the self-employed in agriculture (22 per cent).

Though official data on suicides of agricultural labour is available only for three years, the phenomenon is surely not as recent as it looks. Agricultural labourers have been committing suicides for the last many years during the period of agrarian crisis. The hardships faced by them have been very similar to those experienced by farmers. In fact, in many cases, farm labour was even more hit by the agrarian crisis as reduced employment availability in agriculture severely undermined their capacity to withstand the crisis.

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Outlook, 31 July, 2018, https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/why-is-there-a-rise-in-farm-labour-suicides/314247


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