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Socio-economic psychological and situational causes of farmers suicides in jalna district

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Title Socio-economic psychological and situational causes of farmers suicides in jalna district
 
Creator Khokle, Ramdas Baliram
 
Contributor Kadam, R.P.
 
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Description Suicide is an activity which involves acts with the aim and result of one’s own biological death on basis of social specific historical motives. Farmer suicide has turned out to be a major socio-economic concern in India that has resulted in profound implications on the quality life of farmers. According to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), one farmer committed suicide for every 32 minutes between 1997 and 2005 in India. Lack of social support (including living alone), unemployment, drop in socio economic status, poor relationship with family, domestic partner violence, recent stressful life event etc. are the psycho-social features associated with an increased a relative risk for suicide.
Present investigation conducted in Jalna district in Marathwada region of Maharashtra state. From this district four talukas were selected based on considerable farmer suicide cases. Twenty nine villages were selected randomly based on considerable farmer suicide cases. Forty victims were selected randomly for the study. The ex-post facto research design was used for the study. The data were collected with help of pretested interview schedule from the victim’s households as per their convenience at their home. The statistical methods and test such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and correlation of coefficient were used for analysis of data.
It is noticed that most of the victims were having middle age (75.00%), male gender (92.50%), married (97.00%), (30.00%) victims were high school, (70.00%) victims belong to open category, (67.50%) victims were from nuclear family, (45.00%) suicide were concentrated in middle size family, more than half (47.50%) victims had farming experience between 12 to 28 year, (52.05%) victims were possessing marginal (up to 1.00 ha) land holding, (85.00%) were found to be engaged in agriculture / labour as, medium annual income between Rs. 36,826 to 72,174 (70.00%), (82.50%) victims had medium socio-economic status, (90.00%) victims had light type of land (soil), (90.00%) victims had no source of irrigation, (85.00%) victims had low agriculture infrastructure, (97.50%) victims had low productivity of all crops, (70.00%) victims had cotton based cropping pattern, (97.50%) victims were founded indebted.
 
Date 2018-10-09T09:04:28Z
2018-10-09T09:04:28Z
2018-05-31
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier 18265
http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810077625
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani