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NCRB Data on Farmer Suicides 2022
December 7 , 2023
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- India saw 11,290 suicides in the farming sector in 2022.
- Of these victims, 5,207 were farmers and 6,083 were agricultural labourers.
- The year 2022 witnessed a distressing surge in farmer suicides across India.
- At least one farmer is taking their own life every hour in 2022.
- The suicides among agricultural labourers, those reliant on daily wages from farming activities, surpassed those among farmers and cultivators.
- Maharashtra reported the highest number of farmer suicides (4,248), contributing to 38% of all cases in India.
- Vidarbha and Marathwada district report most of the suicides in the state
- Karnataka (2,392), Andhra Pradesh (917), Tamil Nadu (728), and Madhya Pradesh (641) followed.
- Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest increase in suicides, rising by 42.13% compared to 2021.
- Andhra Pradesh reported a 16% decrease.
- Farm suicide constitutes around 7-8 per cent of the total suicides reported in the country
- The NCRB report does not specify its definition of farmers and agricultural labourers.
- Operational holding is used to differentiate between marginal, small, medium and large labourers.
- Farmers with land holding up to 1 hectare (2.5 acres) are termed marginal farmers, while small farmers hold between 1-2 hectares.
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