34 farmers, farm hands committed suicide every day in 2014

December 01, 2015 20:19

34 farmers and farm labourers committed suicide on an average every day in 2014, reflecting the deepening agrarian distress in several parts of the

country.

The number of people committing suicide in the farming community-- farmers and agriculture labourers -- increased to 12,360 in 2014 from 11,772 the previous year, Parliament was informed today.

In 2012, the number of suicides committed by people whose profession was mentioned as 'self employment-farming or agriculture' was 13,754.

"According to the NCRB report of 2014, the major causes of suicides by farmers are: bankruptcy or indebtedness, farming related issues (failure of crops, distress due to natural calamities, inability to sell produce), poverty,

family problems, illness and other causes," Minister of State for Agriculture Mohanbhai Kundaria said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

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