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'''Farmer suicides in India''' refers to the national catastrophe of [[farmers]] committing [[suicide]] since the 1970s, often by drinking [[pesticides]], due to their inability to repay [[loans]] mostly taken from private landlords and banks.

The [[National Crime Records Bureau]] of India reported that a total of 296,438 Indian farmers had committed suicide since 1995.<ref>{{cite web|title=Maharashtra crosses 60,000 farm suicides|url=https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/maharashtra-crosses-60000-farm-suicides/|access-date=25 March 2019|website=www.ruralindiaonline.org|publisher=Peoples archive of rural India(PARI)}}</ref> Out of these, 60,750 farmer suicides were in the state of Maharashtra since 1995 and the remaining in [[Farmers' suicide in Western Odisha|Odisha]], [[Telangana]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[Gujarat]] and [[Chhattisgarh]], all states with loose financial and entry regulations.<ref>{{cite web |title=NCRB |url=ncrb.gov.in |website=Official website |publisher=Government of India |access-date=25 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=NCRB report - farmers suicides |publisher=NCRB / Government of India |url=http://ncrb.gov.in/StatPublications/ADSI/ADSI2014/chapter-2A%20farmer%20suicides.pdf |access-date=25 March 2019}}</ref>

Earlier, governments had reported varying figures, from 5,650 farmer suicides in 2014<ref name=ncrb2012>National Crime Reports Bureau, [http://ncrb.nic.in/StatPublications/ADSI/ADSI2014/adsi-2014%20full%20report.pdf ADSI Report Annual – 2014] Government of India, p. 242, table 2.11</ref> to the highest number of farmer suicides in 2004 of 18,241.<ref name="allindiancrb">{{cite web|title=NDA, UPA failed to curb farmer suicides|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/NDA-UPA-failed-to-curb-farmer-suicides/articleshow/39501676.cms}}</ref> The farmer's suicide rate in India had ranged between 1.4 and 1.8 per 100,000 total population, over a 10-year period through 2005, however, the figures in 2017 and 2018 showed an average of more than 10 suicides daily.<ref name="ggds"/> There are accusations of states manipulating the data on farmer suicides, hence the real figures could be even higher.<ref>{{cite web|title=P Sainath: How states fudge the data on declining farmer suicides|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/column/p-sainath-how-states-fudge-the-data-on-farmer-suicides/20140801.htm}}</ref>

[[India]] is an agrarian country with around 70% of its people depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture. Agriculture had 15.4% share in economy of India in year 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Agriculture sector in indian economy|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/india/|access-date=|website=}}</ref> Around 41.49% of total labor are associated with agriculture in year 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Agriculture labor participation rate|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS?locations=IN|access-date=|website=}}</ref> Farmer suicides account for 11.2% of all suicides in India.<ref name=ncrb2012/> Activists and scholars have offered a number of conflicting reasons for farmer suicides, such as anti farmer laws, high [[debt]] burdens, poor government policies, corruption in subsidies, crop failure, [[Mental health in India|mental health]], personal issues and family problems.<ref>Gruère, G. & Sengupta, D. (2011), Bt cotton and farmer suicides in India: an evidence-based assessment, The Journal of Development Studies, 47(2), 316–337</ref><ref>Schurman, R. (2013), Shadow space: suicides and the predicament of rural India, Journal of Peasant Studies, 40(3), 597–601</ref><ref>Das, A. (2011), Farmers’ suicide in India: implications for public mental health, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 57(1), 21–29</ref>

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