Economic Affairs
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 61
  • Issue: 4

Impact of farmers’ suicides on social and economic conditions of victim households

1Research Associate, Zonal Technology Management & Business Planning and Development, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute-110012, India

2Research Associate, ICAR-NAIP, New Delhi-110012, India

*Corresponding author: punjabimatti82@gmail.com

Online published on 3 March, 2017.

Abstract

The deplorable condition has emerged for the suicide victims’ households due to the loss of the burdened family member committed suicide by various socio-economic reasons. Size of own land holding, operational land holding dairy farming has been adversely affected; Victims family sold their lands to sustain their livelihood. Numbers of victims’ farmers’ family become landless.

Keywords

Farmer, Suicides, paired t-test, landholding