Citation

Thakuria PK, Mazumder A. Indian J. Forensic Med. Toxicol. 2017; 11(1): 70.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. Deptartment of Forensic Medicine)

DOI

10.5958/0973-9130.2017.00014.7

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Suicide is a fatal act which represents the individuals wish to die. The latin word suicide denotes "self murder". India is an agrarian country with around 60% of its population depends directly or indirectly upon agriculture. Farmer suicide account for 11.2% of all suicides in India. Activists and scholars have cited a number of conflicting reasons for farmer suicide; such as high debt burdens, genetically modified crops, government policies etc. The current study aims at understanding the various stressful life events that lead to suicide of the farmers in Kamrup district, Assam.

Language: en