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Farmers Suicides in India

This book locates the malignant causes behind the factors leading to farmers suicides in India. It argues that not only a combination of innovative managerial and economic policies is required to make farming profitable, but also food production within the carrying capacity of soil, water, forests and economic and social resources must still be maintained. It brings together diverse themes, such as farming development and suicide statistics, as well as the developmental inertia evident in farmers welfare policy history. The book stresses the need to go beyond the narrow crop economics of minimum support price utility and towards recognizing the farm household economic nature of farming, reinventing the uniqueness of farmers as a productive class engaged in converting cosmic elements into food and adopting the budgetary support approach to bail out the farmers from the suicidal, debt-multiplying, production support approach.

Lucid and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, political sociology, agricultural economics, political economy, public policy, sociology, agrarian and rural development studies, as also to policy analysts, governmental bodies and civil society activists.

P. C. Bodh is an Indian Economic Service officer of the 1987 batch and is currently senior adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, government of India. He was formerly director of the Planning Commission. With thirty years of experience in six ministries of the government of India, he has significantly contributed to policy making, research management and monitoring and has initiated the India Agricultural Outlook Forum. He has several academic and literary books to his credit and has been editing and managing the Ministrys flagship publication the monthly journal Agricultural Situation in India and reports such as Agricultural Statistics at a Glance, State of Indian Agriculture and Glimpses of Indian Agriculture (2018).

Farmers Suicides in India

A Policy Malignancy

P. C. Bodh

First published 2019

by Routledge

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2019 P.C. Bodh

The right of P.C. Bodh to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bodh, P. C., author.

Title: Farmers suicides in India : a policy malignancy / P.C. Bodh.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: LCSH: FarmersIndiaSocial conditions. | FarmersSuicidal behaviorIndia. | Small farmsIndia. | Agriculture and stateIndia.

Classification: LCC HD8039.F32 I43326 2019 | DDC 362.28088/630954dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018057021

ISBN: 978-1-138-34737-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-24418-6 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon
by Apex CoVantage, LLC

To the toiling fathers and forefathers
Who took to deprivation to feed the worlds hungry billions;
And have taught us to pride in the soil we plough;
And have taught us to believe in the piety of husbandry
That masters the magic of turning the cosmic into crops
As the gifts of the divine to humans and animals;
That earned the farmers the stature of productive classes
In the ingenuity of the Adam of economics in his Wealth of Nations!

Contents

Part 1
Genesis

Part 2
Probing into the matter

Part 3
Beyond surveys and their findings

Part 4
Humanizing farm economics

Part 5
Innovative economic policy: beyond science and technology

AIDS	acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIHW	Australian Institute of Health & Family Welfare
AIMA	Action-Impact Matrix Analysis
AP	Andhra Pradesh
APMC	Agricultural Price and Marketing Committee
ARMS	Agricultural Research and Management Statistics
BPO	Bellmans Principle of Optimality
CACP	Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices
CBRD	community-based rural development
CC	cost concepts
CPIAL	Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labour
CS	cost statistics
DARA	decreasing absolute risk aversion
Distt	district
DPS	decoupled payment strategy
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization
FBI	farm business income
FDI	foreign direct investment
FYM	farmyard manure
GDP	gross domestic product
GM	genetically modified
GMOs	genetically modified organisms
GSDP	gross state domestic product
GVA	gross value added
GVO	gross value output
HIV	human immunodeficiency virus
HLP	hired labour payment
HYV	high-yielding variety
IFWS	Internet-based Farmers Welfare Scheme
ITEAa	IT-Enabled Agri-Agents
ITEAMt	IT-enabled Agri-Economics Management Team
ITEAVe	IT-enabled Agri-Value Addition Expert Team
ITENAvt	IT-Enabled National Agri-Value Addition Steering Team
IADS	Indian Agricultural Development Service
ICAR	Indian Council of Agricultural Research
IFS

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