Against 10,881 farm suicides reported in 2021, NCRB recorded farm suicides to be 3.7 per cent higher in 2022 when a total of 11,290 farmers and farm workers took the fatal route. In 2022, of the 5,207 farmers who took their own lives, 208 were women. Similarly, of the 6,083 farm workers who committed suicide, 611 were women. Most suicides were reported from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Maharashtra alone reported 38 per cent of the total farm suicides, recording 4,248 suicides.
Devinder Sharma, ‘Incredible India! Wilful defaulters buy properties; farmers offer to sell body organs to pay-off loans’, Bizz Buzz

















