No Farmer Suicide In Odisha During 2018, Says National Crime Records Bureau
New Delhi: At a time when farmers suicide in many parts of the country is hitting headlines, owing to its good governance led by Naveen Patnaik, Odisha has reported zero suicides of farmers or cultivators and agricultural labourers during 2018, said a report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)’s report on ‘Crime in India-2018’. [...]
New Delhi: At a time when farmers suicide in many parts of the country is hitting headlines, owing to its good governance led by Naveen Patnaik, Odisha has reported zero suicides of farmers or cultivators and agricultural labourers during 2018, said a report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)’s report on ‘Crime in India-2018’.
According to report, a total of 10,349 people involved in the farming sector, including 5,763 farmers or cultivators, committed suicide in India in 2018. The annual data was released around three months after the government released the NCRB report on ‘Crime in India-2017’.
The number of suicides in the farming sector in 2018 accounted for 7.7 per cent of the total suicide-victims (1,34,516) in the country, the NCRB data said.
Suicides in the country in 2018 rose to 1,34,516 from 1,29,887 in 2017. The rate of suicides was up from 9.9 per cent in 2017 to 10.2 per cent in 2018. In 2017, a total of 10,655 farming sector-suicides were reported.
West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Goa, Chandigarh, Daman and Diu, Delhi, Lakshadweep and Puducherry reported zero suicides of farmers or cultivators and agricultural labourers during 2018, said the report.
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