The Registrar General of India implemented a nationally representative mortality survey to determine the cause of deaths occurring between 20 in 1♱ million homes in 6671 small areas chosen randomly from all parts of India. We aimed to quantify suicide mortality in India in 2010. WHO estimates that about 170,000 deaths by suicide occur in India every year, but few epidemiological studies of suicide have been done in the country. All the data collected were analyzed simple percentage and mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, Chi-square have been used for analysis. Keeping in view ten subject categories have been mainly identified for this research. The selection time period was one year i.e. In this, a purposive sample method was adopted. Eenadu and Andhrajyothi were taken for analysis. The Hindu and The New Indian Express and two Telugu dailies i.e. A quantitative content analysis was adopted in this research. This study seeks to investigate news items on farmers’ suicides in the Indian newspapers. That most suicides occurred in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Punjab. The total number of farmers’ suicides crossed 3 lakh mark till in 2014. The government figures show 14,000 farmers took their own lives in 2011. The journalist Palagummi Sainath highlighted that 17,500 farmers were suicides between 2002 to 2006. Since the 1990s farmer suicides in India have made headlines. Farmers' suicides are a complex phenomenon. The failure of monsoons leading to a series of droughts, lack of better prices, exploitation by middlemen, and Gene Modified (GM) seed companies who are selling expensive cotton seeds and fertilizers, all of which have led to a series of suicides committed by farmers across India. Agriculture in India is often regarded as gambling with monsoons, because of its almost exclusive dependency on precipitation from monsoons. Agriculture is the only source of livelihood to the two third of the population which gives employment to 57 percent of the workforce. P>India, consisting of 16 percent of world population subsists only on 2.4 percent land resources.
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