Reasons of Farmers Suicide in Jayshankar Bhupalpally District of Telangana State

ABSTRACT The study was conducted in Jayshankar Bhupalpally District of Telangana State to study the reasons of farmers suicide. Through quota sampling method 10 deceased farmers were selected at random, thus a total 120 respondents were selected from the selected ten villages to study the reasons of farmers suicide. The data was collected by personal interview method by using pre-structured interview schedule and latter appropriate statistical analysis was done to draw logical conclusion. The study revealed that majority of the deceased farmers (53.33%) belonged to old age group, 68.33 per cent were males, 43.34 per cent were illiterate, 39.17 per cent had small size of family (1-3 members). Most of the deceased farmers (38.33%) had small size (1-2.5 acres) of farm size while 35.84 per cent of the deceased farmers had medium size (2.5-5 acres) of farm size and 25.83 per cent of the deceased farmers had high (more than 5 acres) of farm size during the time of suicide.