Study on Factors Responsible for Farmers Suicide in Amravati District

The present study was conducted in the area of 14 Tahsils of Amravati district. The main objective of the study was to find factors responsible for farmers suicide. The finding of the study revealed that the majority of the deceased farmers were of middle age having medium level of economic motivation and small size of land holdings. However, the observations also showed that most of the farmers were from joint family having medium size of family with low annual income and low social participation. Majority of the farmers had single crop farming in every year and high level of debt. The observations also showed that most of the farmers had fair health. The correlation analysis showed that significant variables were (i) Indebtedness, (ii) Cropping pattern, (iii) Annual income, (iv) Social participation, (v) Family type, (vi) Family size and the non-significant variables included (i) Age (ii), Education (iii), Land holding, (iv) Occupation, (v) Economic motivation, (vi) Health.