Farmers are the main pillars of Indian economy and a source of food security for the whole nation. Farmers suicide has emerged as a serious problem today in India, each year thousands of farmers commit suicide due to lower income and heavy debt, they don't have access to market, new technologies and irritation facilities, their land is being taken away by private sectors, Contract farming, small holding of lands, climate change, food shortage, water, issues of droughts and floods have all affected the live of the farmers in a miserable way ,the income from cultivate is so low that they are now shifting from farms to non farms sector for earning, 76 of the farmers have left cultivation, marginalised and small holder farmers are the worst affected by it. The government has launched many schemes and brought in technology advancement still those facilities have not reduced the number of suicide cases, its growing at a rapid speed. Farmers today belongs to the most vulnerable section of the society. We need to all farmers access to the market, create better infrastructure and road connectivity followed by free health care and education provisions for the farmers and their families, special food package and medical insurance for farmers and their families. Dr. Sumanta Bhattacharya | Dr. Heera Lal | Bhavneet Kaur Sachdev "A Study on the Agriculture Sector and the Problems Associated with it which has an Impact on the Farmers" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46464.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/46464/a-study-on-the-agriculture-sector-and-the-problems-associated-with-it-which-has-an-impact-on-the-farmers/dr-sumanta-bhattacharya
International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD)
Volume 5 Issue 6, September-October 2021 Available Online: www.ijtsrd.com e-ISSN: 2456 – 6470
@ IJTSRD | Unique Paper ID – IJTSRD46464 | Volume – 5 | Issue – 6 | Sep-Oct 2021
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A Study on the Agriculture Sector and the Problems
Associated with it which has an Impact on the Farmers
Dr. Sumanta Bhattacharya
1
, Dr. Heera Lal
2
, Bhavneet Kaur Sachdev
3
1Research Scholar at MAKAUT, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2IAS, Additional Mission Director at National Health Mission, Uttar Pradesh, India
3Political Science Hons, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
ABSTRACT
Farmers are the main pillars of Indian economy and a source of food
security for the whole nation. Farmers suicide has emerged as a
serious problem today in India, each year thousands of farmers
commit suicide due to lower income and heavy debt, they don’t have
access to market, new technologies and irritation facilities, their land
is being taken away by private sectors, Contract farming, small
holding of lands, climate change, food shortage, water, issues of
droughts and floods have all affected the live of the farmers in a
miserable way ,the income from cultivate is so low that they are now
shifting from farms to non-farms sector for earning, 76% of the
farmers have left cultivation, marginalised and small holder farmers
are the worst affected by it. The government has launched many
schemes and brought in technology advancement still those facilities
have not reduced the number of suicide cases, its growing at a rapid
speed. Farmers today belongs to the most vulnerable section of the
society. We need to all farmers access to the market, create better
infrastructure and road connectivity followed by free health care and
education provisions for the farmers and their families, special food
package and medical insurance for farmers and their families.
KEYWORDS: Farmers, contract farming, suicide, food secur