In Search of Happiness: Amidst Increasing Stress and Uncertainty of Indian Farmers

Everyone by nature remains in search of happiness, a mental state of well being. As happiness is an expectation, entropy persists as a reality. Indian farmers are supposed to bear the humongous responsibility of food security of millions but seldom do we care for their happiness. This review paper examines different aspects of farmers’ happiness in terms of stress and satisfaction, poverty and hunger, climate change and resource denudation, mobility and migration, the income and empowerment all are deeply intrigued into the context of farmer’s happiness. Globally on happiness-index India’s position is just close to the lowest one. The conceptual heterodoxy of happiness has been well examined. Both the physical and mental well being of the farmers are extremely important for augmenting and sustaining our food security and economic growth. So the inquiry is necessary to extract the causes of the unhappiness, the farmers are passing through and essentials to make them happy as per their terms and conditions.