@article{ref1,
title="Farmer's suicide: causes and sustainable technological interventions for prevention of suicides",
journal="International journal of current microbiology and applied sciences",
year="2018",
author="Arunkumar, P. and Hanumanthaswamy, B.C. and Gopakkali, Pradeep and Nagaraja, R.",
volume="7",
number="07",
pages="1692-1700",
abstract="A  total  of  15  victim  families  belonging  to  Shikaripura  and  Shivamogga  taluks  of Shivamogga district of Karnataka were interviewed. The data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics. Most of the suicided farmers were 73.33 per cent belongs to medium level of age group. Majority of suicided farmers 60.00 per cent were having medium level of education. The marital status was married for all the suicided farmers and 66.67 per cent of suicided farmers were marginal farmers (< 2.5 acre). It was found that 53.33 per cent suicided farmers belonged to the medium level income group. Majority of suicided farmers had farming experience more than 10 years. It was observed that  86.66 per  cent of the farmers purchased the inputs from private firms. It is very clear that failure of crops was the major reason for farmers commit suicide that is 80.00 per cent and a high debt burden 73.33 per cent  was found  to be the major  risk factor  for suicide. Further, revealed that 66.66 per cent  of the  farmers were  sucided due  to the  financial stress  and followed by 60.00  per cent  of the farmers suicided because they  were getting  lowest  market price. Recommended  suitable  intervention  of  technologies  to  overcome  problems,  integrated farming system, intercropping and Promotion of vegetables like French bean, tomato and chilli in ginger growing areas. The technology interventions on integrated farming system, water  management  through  drip  irrigation  and  sprinkler  irrigation,  entrepreneurship development  activities among  rural youth,  rural  women and  farmers,  timely awareness programmes  on improved  cultivation practices on different crops based on season and market and also  skill development programmes are needed for rural youths, farmers and women for higher net returns with lesser cost of production, there by the economic status of the farmers will be improved and automating suicidal cases will be avoided.                                              Introduction  India is an agrarian country and nearly 60 per cent  of  the  population  depending  on agriculture  directly  or  indirectly. Among  all the  suicides, farmers'  suicide is  about 11.20 per cent  in India. Farmer's  suicide in  India  is the intentional ending of one's life by a person dependent on farming as their primary source of  livelihood. Activists  and  scholars  have offered  a  number  of  conflicting  reasons  for farmer  suicides,  such  as  monsoon  failure, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 07 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2319-7692",
doi="10.20546/ijcmas.2018.707.199",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2018.707.199"
}