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AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FARMERS’ SUICIDES IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

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Title AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FARMERS’ SUICIDES IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Creator SIVA PARVATHI, T
 
Contributor RAGHUNADHA REDDY, G
 
Subject sampling, tillage equipment, marketing, crops, area, land resources, costs, economics, physical control, finance
 
Description The agricultural sector in India is facing with one or the other crisis since
independence. With globalization, the government has withdrawn its
responsibility towards rural development, land reforms and market regulation.
In recent years, one of the tragic manifestations of the crisis concerns a large
number of suicides committed by farmers in India. Hence, the present study
entitled “ An Economic analysis of farmers suicides in Prakasam district of
Andhra Pradesh” was conducted with the following specific objectives:
1. To study the socio-economic profile of the suicide families.
2. To analyze the factors responsible for suicides by the sample farmers.
3. To analyze the ameliorative measures adopted through government’s
intervention in addressing this issue of suicides in the farm families.
4. To suggest the measures to prevent such tendencies among the farmers.
Prakasam district in Andhra pradesh was purposively selected for the
study, as it was reported more suicides by farmers in the coastal Andhra
Pradesh. Through purposive sampling method 40 deceased families since 2006
to 2010 were identified from the district, based on the data provided by the
District Revenue Deportment. An exploratory design of social research was
adopted for this study. A well structured interview schedule was employed to
collect the requisite information from the sample families and other related
institutions.The secondary data pertaining to names, addresses and the ex-gratia
given by the government for the suicidal farmer’s collected from the district
revenue deportment, to assess implementation of the relief packages and its
impact on the sustainability of the victim families.
The primary data was collected through the field survey by the interview
method with the help of a structured interview schedule. From sample
families,useful information pertaining to socio-economic aspects, factors
responsible for the menace, amount of debt were analyzed and tabulated.
The analysis revealed that the total family expenditure per house hold was
₹.59,443 which included all the items pertaining to necessaries, comforts and
luxuries. And among them owner-cum- tenant farmers, tenant farmers were worst
effected with highest income gap of ₹. 78647, ₹.76186 respectively. The tenant
farmers who were having low asset base incurred more on farm business without
proper assessment of their risk bearing ability.
The net returns per hectare was negative in case of all major crops
cultivated by the victim farmers and among all Bengal gram was highest with ₹.-
32,824,Chillies with ₹.6,183, Paddy with ₹. -6183, Cotton with ₹.-4,404. Though
the sale price seems higher than MSP, in case of Bengal gram and cotton but the
net returns were very much low this was because no consideration of increased
labour and input costs over the years while calculation of MSP by the govt.
Source-wise debt owned by the victim farmers revealed that, 12.50 per cent
of total debt was owed to institutional agencies and 87.50 per cent to noninstitutional
agencies. Purpose-wise indebtedness revealed that, 92 per cent of
total debt incurred for productive purpose and only 8 per cent for consumption
purpose. In case of amount borrowed, 48 per cent of total amount was borrowed
by the owner-cum-tenant farmers followed by 28 per cent and 23 per cent of total
amount by tenant farmers and owner farmers respectively.
The analysis revealed that, the level of net income of the sample families was
considered as the influencing factor on farmers mind in committing suicide. The
land holding was positively significant which means with the increase of size of
land holding the net income of the farmers also increases. And farm expenditure
per year, family expenditure per year and tenancy were found to be negatively
significant which means that, with the increase of these variables the net income
decreases and debt was positively significant. Finally, the variable education
found to be non- significant indicating that, the education level of farmers was not
much influence the net income of the farmer.
The ex-gratia given by the govt. was reached to 80 per cent of the victim
families and remaining were under pending. The situation of the deceased
families after the death of the farmers who were treated as head of the families
was about only 20 per cent of them were continued cultivation of agricultural
crops. So, mere giving ex-gratia is not enough but revamping of subsidies of
agril. inputs and reasonable market prices as well as suitable reforms to tenants
are need of the hour.
 
Date 2016-06-21T12:19:02Z
2016-06-21T12:19:02Z
2012
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67579
 
Language en
 
Relation D9379;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY