PAPER PRESENTATION On

Causes and Solution of Farmer’s Suicide

PRESENTED BY-

MITAL J. KARIYA

JYOTI D. KARIYA

H.V.P.M COET

MBA (IInd Year)

Topic to be Covered

Introduction

Farmers Suicide In India

Causes of Farmers Suicide

Responses to Farmers suicides

Solution for Farmers Suicide

Step taken by NGO for Farmers Problem

Introduction

Agriculture has always been celebrated as the primary sector in India.

Today, more and more farmers are adopting mechanization for their farming.

Behind all the growth and development lies the reality that Indian farmers have to face - extreme poverty and financial crisis driving them to suicides

Farmer’s Suicide in India

In a country of 70 million farmers, it is 10 in every 1,00,000 farmers committing suicide.

Death is haunting the farmers of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra .

Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen says “The highest suicides are in the regions with the highest debt”

Causes Of Famers Suicide Some main Causes of Farmers Suicide are:

Causes

Lack of small

irrigation projects Below

average rainfall

Heavy load-sheddingLow interest

of Young Generation in farming

Narrowing Farmers'

margins of profits

Rising cost of

Agricultural Inputs

Continued…

In Addition of above cause some more reasons are as follow:-

Apathy of political willpower toward welfare and development of the region.

Farmers get only one crop per year.

Majority of the farmers in India own as little as 2 acres of land.

Absence of institutional finance

These causes have left the farmers with no other solution other than ending their lives

Responses to Farmers Suicides

Lopsided policies of the world trade organization and developed nations.

The Indian government had promised to increase the rate of cotton.

Solution’s

Here are some Solution that could help in improving the state of the farmers:

Water Management

Financial Institutional

Training to Farmers

Empowering Farmers

Continued…In addition to above solution n following solution also

be helpful:-Set Up and Implementation of Insurance SchemeAwareness Campaign about various agro schemesProvide training on Agro-economic, Organic farming, Set up of DairyTo avail Business opportunities for small farmers

 Giving information about various loan Facility.

Above solution are helpful to reduce suicide rates of farmers

 

 

SHETKARI JAGRUTI ABHIYAN

HVPM NGO has taken a step for welfare of Farmers

It provides following solution for Farmers:-

Training to farmers and their Youth .

Counseling for farmers

‘Maha- Bank self-employed training institute’ in the premises of H.V.P.Mandal opened for Unemployed Farmers.

Conclusion

"Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day but teach him how to fish, he will eat for the rest of his life“

If India has to shine, it is these farmers that need to be empowered.

The solutions should aim at the entire structure of agriculture

General public, NGOs, Corporates and other organizations too can play a part in helping farmers