ABSTRACT
By going ahead with the discussion and examining the data and information, it emerges that geographically farmers’ suicides are concentrated not only in the plateau states but also in some plateau districts. When this is further analysed, it is shown that more significant and rather more indicative data is the farmers’ suicides numbers per district, not per state. This analysis is aimed at relating farmers’ suicides to the actual unit of population suffering the crisis. Whereas average annual state suicide rates show Maharashtra on top of the suicide-hit state list, followed by Karnataka, AP, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, Rajasthan, the district-level suicide scenario puts West Bengal on top, followed by Karnataka, AP, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.
