Friday, April 20, 2018

Farmer suicides in India




India is an agrarian country with around 70% of its people depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture. Farmer suicides account for 11.2% of all suicides in India.


In 2014, 12,360 persons in the farming sector .

5,650 farmers-cultivators  
6,710 agricultural labourers 
committed suicide, accounting for 9.4% of the total number of suicides (131,666) in the country, the Centre said. In 2013, the number was 11,772, accounting for 8.7% of the 134,799 suicides in the country.

Farmar suicides percentage increasing day by day & this is our responsibility to raise our voice against it .

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