Households in southern India are most indebted; for example, Andhra Pradesh has the highest share of indebted agricultural households (93%), followed by Telangana (89%) and Tamil Nadu (82.1%). The nationwide Fig. is 52%. This paper examines the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the farmer's suicide in Karnataka. It is found that the highest numbers were registered in well-developed and resource rich districts like Haveri (125), Madya (128), Mysore (113), Belagavi (112) amounting to almost 37% of the total farmers suicides in Karnataka during 2015 - 2016, whereas the drought prone and dry areas exhibited relatively less number of suicides. Generally farming practices in dry districts are performed in the context of environmental factors. Number of farmers' suicides per lakh hectare of net sown area shows that 15 farmers committed suicide in Karnataka. Likewise, there were 12 farmers' suicides per lakh hectare of gross cropped area and there were 19 farmers'suicides for every lakh of farming families in Karnataka. Suicides among farmers are not only because of monsoon crop failure but there are many other reasons like indebtedness, bankruptcy, inability to sell output etc. This social problem can be mitigated through psychological counselling, increase of crop loan, technological adaptation and changes in farming methods, strong implementation of minimum support price (MSP) etc.

Author Name: Dr. Shivananda Chinnappanavar Mr. Sawant Sushant Anil

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Keywords: Farmers' Suicide Karnataka Agriculture Spatial Temporal GIS

ISSN: 2249-3921

EISSN: 2249-4316

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