Socio-economic, psychological and situational profile of farmer suicide in Jalna district

Abstract

The present investigation was conducted during 2017-18 in Jalna district of Marathwada region in Maharashtra State. The main objective of the study was to study relationship between selected characteristics of suicide Farmers’ with their identified risk factors of suicide. From this district four talukas were selected based on considerable farmer suicide cases. Twenty nine villages were selected randomly based on considerable farmer suicide cases. Forty victims was selected randomly for the study. The ex-post facto research design was used for the study. The data were collected with help of pretested interview schedule from the victim’s households as per their convenience at their home. The statistical methods and test such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and correlation of coefficient were used for analysis of data. It is noticed that most of the victims were having middle age (75.00%), male gender (92.50%), married (97.00%), (30.00%) victims were high school, (70.00%) victims belong to open category, (67.50%) victims were from nuclear family, (45.00%) suicide were concentrated in middle size family, half of victims(47.50%) had farming experience between 12 to 28 year, (52.05%) victims were possessing marginal (up to 1.00 ha) land holding, (85.00%) were found to be engaged in agriculture / labour as, medium annual income between Rs. 1476 to 1,42,871 (90.00%), (82.50%) victims had medium socio-economic status, (90.00%) victims had light type of land (soil), (90.00%) victims had no source of irrigation, (70.00%) victims had cotton based cropping pattern, (97.50%) victims were founded indebted. Also the result showed that cast, land holding, annual income, socio- economic status, indebtedness was found to be positively and highly significantly related with Socio-psycho risk factor of suicide. Also the result showed that relationship of profile of farmer with family size was found to be positively and significantly related with Socio-psycho risk factor of suicide.