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The farm suicide rate was 12.9 suicides per 100,000 farmers, which was higher than the general suicide rate at 10.6 for 2001 in India. [94] By gender, the suicide rate was 16.2 male farmer suicides per 100,000 male farmers compared to 12.5 male suicides per 100,000 for the general population.
Between 2014 and 2018, over 450 more committed suicide, [3] although the actual total is believed to be higher because not every state provided suicide data for each year, some redacted portions of the data, [3] and some reported the deaths as agricultural accidents. [7] 75 farmers committed suicide across six Midwestern states in 2017. That ...
Perturbed over oppositions' attempts to make it issue, BJD decided to send a team for assuaging farmers. It was also reported that a team of high-level Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, led by State president Suresh Pujari, visited Khapsadea village in Sambalpur district where a farmer committed suicide in the first week of October 7.
A 2018 report highlighted the fact that male farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers were nearly twice as likely to die by suicide as the general working population (32.2 suicides per 100,000 people compared to 17.3 suicides per 100,000 people, respectively). [1] Note, in 2020 male suicide rates are 3.88 times higher than female rates. [2]
According to Shiva, "Soaring seed prices in India have resulted in many farmers being mired in debt and turning to suicide". The creation of seed monopolies, the destruction of alternatives, the collection of superprofits in the form of royalties, and the increasing vulnerability of monocultures has created a context for debt, suicides, and ...
More women in the U.S. are using firearms in suicide deaths, a new federal report says. Firearms were used in more than half the country’s record 49,500 suicide deaths in 2022, Centers for ...
Female farmers warn of mental ... “It should be of huge concern to every one of us that the suicide rate among male farmers is three times the national average, and the highest among any sector ...
These individuals typically commit suicide using pesticides. [10] In fact, farmers in some rural parts of India are twice as likely to commit suicide than urban Indians. [10] From 1997 to 2012, over 180,000 farmers committed suicide in India due to the burden of debt. [5] In 2016, there were over 11,000 suicides by Indian farmers. [29]