Farmers Fighting For Livelihood

Farmers are said to be the main part of Indian population. India is based and known for its agriculture sector and the administrator of this sector are farmers. But its very sad to know that those who work hard to provide us food they themselves are not getting at least amount to serve their family and children. Farmers suicide is a big problem in India and government is doing nothing instead of giving some amount of money to their family to live rest of their life with the help of those money. India is the country where at least 70% person people depend directly or indirectly on agriculture but still government is in their own world of dreams.

There are lots of problems ranging from land, irrigation water, availability of quality inputs in time, improved production technology, timely credit, cheap labour availability, risk management-crop insurance, production of quality output, post harvest management, storage and premium price for the end product produced by farmers. All these factors must be considered and taken into account. Farmers are totally depended on their farming and it totally depends upon the climate. Farmers produces grains but sometimes due to flood, drought, or lack of irrigation facilities and technologies their all hard work is ruined and loss is to be repaid by themselves. Government do not provide insurance for their grains so that if some loss occurs farmers should not pay for that. And at the end the stress of serving their family and children leave no option for them but suicide.

According recent report by NCRB(National crime records bureau) in 2010, 15,964 farmers committed suicide, the majority of the suicide victims were in the age group of 30 to 59. Five most affected states in India are Maharastra(3,141), Karnataka(2,585), Andhra Pradesh(2,525), Madhya pradesh(1,237) and Chattisgarh(1,126). Average calculation of number of deaths during decade reveals over 45 farmers are committing suicide every day moreover, out of total deaths,around 15 per cent suicide victims are women farmers. A record says that 2.5 lakh farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 13 years. The despair has deepened over the past years with 18 of the 28 states reporting more suicides. The farmers suicide graph has been steadily rising.

Farmers are continuously fighting for their livelihood and waiting for the day when government will turn to their problems and their fight for their own produced food will come to an end.

                                                               Sonalika