Thousands of farmers have committed suicides in India in the last decade due to multiple reasons. Most suicides have occurred in states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Kerala.
Causes
- indebtedness of small and marginal farmers
- rising costs of cultivation
- plummeting prices of farm commodities
- lack of credit availability for small farmers
- repeated crop failures
Remedies
- to ban exorbitant interest rates charged by private moneylenders
- crop Insurance Scheme must be implemented
- renewal of the land’s biodiversity
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