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INDEBTEDNESS AND FARMERS SUICIDE IN VIDARBHA REGION, MAHARASHTRA

Journal: SRJ'S FOR HUMANITY SCIENCES & ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Vol.4, No. 20)

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Page : 4534-4544

Keywords : cotton; white-fly; suicides; indebtedness; agrarian crisis.;

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Abstract

Indian agriculture is backbone of the Indian Economy. After the independence of India the Government starts the development through Five Year Plans overall development of the country. In the First and Third Five Year Plan the Government gave the top priority to the agriculture development, irrigation, education and health sector. In the Third Five Year Plan government give the top priority to the use the High Yield Varity Seeds, use of insecticide, use of Pesticide and mechanization of farming in the state of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. With the emergence of the green revaluation in 1960 onwards not only the agriculture production is increased but also India become self sufficient in food grains production. In some part of the India only one cash crops were producing the farmers then the crop failure, heavy rains, double sowing of the seeds, drought, untimely rains, low market rates, control of the businessman on the market, no cold storage for the store of the production of farmers and the government policies related to the agriculture goes in against to the farmers. After 1991 adaptation the Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization policy in India problem of Farmers' Suicide is one of the vital concerns that need to be addressed by the Government. The government of India and Government of Maharashtra are trying to control the farmer's suicide in the vidarbha region. The Government declares the Special Packages for this region. From 1995 to till 2016 more than 60, 750 thousand of farmers are committed suicide in the region and 2, 92 400 farmers committed suicide in allover India. So it is alarming of the sector for the agriculture and one major social problem as a farmer's suicide is increased in Rural India.

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