School of Economics, University of Hyderabad
Online published on 19 June, 2021.
This paper examines the factors that are leading to farmers suicides in Warangal district of Telangana region in undivided Andhra Pradesh. Both primary and secondary data were used in this paper. The primary data was generated from field survey by the researchers and secondary data was collected from National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB). The study finds that the majority of suicides of farmers were due to borrowing heavily from non-institutional sources at high rates of interest and failure of crops. High interest rates levied by the Non-institutions on the loans borrowed by the farm households resulted in socio-economic distress. The coercive methods employed by the Non-institutions to recover loans from the borrowers inflicted social shame and deflated dignity and worth of the farm household members.Such shameful harassment was unbearable, inescapable and inexplicable which generated suicidal tendencies among the farmers.
