'Data on farm suicides has huge errors'
Express News ServiceFirst Published : 02 Feb 2010 05:15:00 AM ISTLast
Updated : 02 Feb 2010 07:46:30 AM IST
BANGALORE: The figures as showed by the National Crime Records Bureau
on farmer suicides have "huge errors" resulting in disparity in the
numbers of those who have committed suicide in the country said
journalist and writer, P Sainath.
He was speaking at the inaugural function of the 36th National Annual
Conference of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychology.
The NCRB reports have excluded women, dalits and adivasis, Sainath said.
"In our society, in most cases, the title of the land is never in the
name of the woman. However, woman do most of the work in the
farmland," he said.
"The adivasis and Dalits have not been recognised as farmers due to
improper title deeds," he added.
"The numbers we have is authentic but not accurate," he says.
Sainath pointed out the increasing cost of rural health care. With
India becoming the first largest health sector provider, the
increasing privatisation of the sector has made farmers shell out huge
amounts on health bills, he said.
The cash farming which was largely promoted by the government mainly
aimed at the imports also had it affect when the prices plummeted,
says Sainath.
Many farmers switched to cash crop such as Vanilla, which in the first
two years gave farmers a return of Rs 4000 per kg.
Later the prices were slashed to a meager Rs 68 per kg, which not even
enough to meet the farmers cultivation costs, he underlined.
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