The Suicide Economy Of Corporate Globalisation By Vandana Shiva. The Largest Wave Of Suicides In History by P. Sainath. The number of farmers who have committed suicide in between 1997 and 2007 now stands at a staggering 182,936. Close to two-thirds of these suicides have occurred in five states ( has 28 states and seven union territories). The Big 5 – , Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh– account for just about a third of the country’s population but two-thirds of farmers’ suicides. The rate at which farmers are killing themselves in these states is far higher than suicide rates among non-farmers. Farm suicides have also been rising in some other states of the country. It is significant that the count of farmers taking their lives is rising even as the numbers of farmers diminishes, that is, on a shrinking farmer base. As many as 8 million people quit farming between the two censuses of 1991 and 2001.
The rate of people leaving farming has only risen since then, but we’ll only have the updated figure of farmers in the census of 2011. What do the farm suicides have in common? P. Famine in India. Famine had been a recurrent feature of life in the Indian sub-continental countries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and reached its numerically deadliest peak in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Historical and legendary evidence names some 90 famines in 2,500 years of history. There are 14 recorded famines in India between the 11th and 17th centuries.
Famines in India resulted in more than 60 million deaths over the course of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. The last major famine was the Bengal famine of 1943. A famine occurred in the state of Bihar in December 1966 on a much smaller scale. The drought of Maharashtra in 1970–1973 is often cited as an example in which successful famine prevention processes were employed. Indian agriculture is heavily dependent on climate: a favourable southwest summer monsoon is critical in securing water for irrigating crops. Ancient, mediaeval and pre-colonial India[edit] According to Mushtaq A. British rule[edit] Scholarly opinions[edit] Green Revolution in India. An increase in food production, especially in underdeveloped and developing nations, through the introduction of high-yield crop varieties and application of modern agricultural techniques. The introduction of high-yielding varieties of seeds and the increased use of chemical fertilizers and irrigation are known collectively as the Green Revolution, which provided the increase in production needed to make India self-sufficient in food grains, thus improving agriculture in India.
<ref>"Library of Congress Country Studies". U.S. Library of Congress (released in public domain). Retrieved 2007-10-06. The production of wheat has produced the best results in fueling self-sufficiency of India. Measures Adopted in Green Revolution[edit] Use of High Yielding Varieties (HYV) of seedsIrrigationUse of insecticides and pesticidesConsolidation of holdingsLand reformsImproved rural infrastructureSupply of agricultural creditUse of (chemical) fertilizersUse of sprinklers or drip irrigation. Poverty in India. Map of world poverty by country, showing percentage of population living on less than $1.75 per day. Based on 2009 UN Human Development Report. Map of world poverty by country, showing percentage of population living on less than $2 per day.
Based on 2009 UN Human Development Report. Poverty in India is widespread, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world's poor. In 2010, the World Bank reported that 32.7% of all people in India fall below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 per day (PPP) while 68.7% live on less than US$ 2 per day.[1] According to 2010 data from the United Nations Development Programme, an estimated 29.8% of Indians live below the country's national poverty line.[2] A 2010 report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) states that 8 Indian states have 421 million poor people more poor people than Sub-Saharan Africa.[3][4] A 2013 UN report stated that a third of the worlds poorest people live in India.[5] Poverty estimates[edit]