Agrarian Distress and Farmer Suicides in North India

Singh, Lakhwinder; Bhangoo, Kesar Singh; Sharma, Rakesh

doi:10.4324/9780429270628

Cited by 11 publications

(11 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Due to poverty and a lack of awareness, farming is still conducted using conventional techniques in India. The hardships farmers face are the biggest hurdle in switching to high-yield technologies [50,51]. The challenges created inertia among the farming community to stick to conventional methods and forced them to take extreme steps.…”

Section: Distress In Farmersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agrivoltaics: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach for Indian Farmers

Mahto

Sharma

John

et al. 2021

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

India is a leader when it comes to agriculture. A significant part of the country’s population depends on agriculture for livelihood. However, many of them face challenges due to using unreliable farming techniques. Sometimes the challenges increase to the extent that they commit suicide. Besides, India is highly populated, and its population is steadily increasing, requiring its government to grow its GDP and increase its energy supply proportionately. This paper reviews integrating solar farming with agriculture, known as Agrivoltaics, as a Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) option for Indian farmers. This study is further supported by the Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis of agrivoltaics. Using the SWOT analysis, this article presents how agrivoltaics can make agriculture sustainable and reliable. This paper identifies rural electrification, water conservation, yield improvement, sustainable income generation, and reduction in the usage of pesticides as the strengths of agrivoltaics. Similarly, the paper presents weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to agrivoltaics in India. The research concludes with the findings that agrivoltaics have the potential of meeting multiple objectives such as meeting global commitments, offering employment, providing economic stability, increasing clean energy production capacity, conserving natural resources, and succeeding in several others. The paper also includes a discussion about the findings, suggestions, and implications of adopting agrivoltaics on a large scale in India.

show abstract

Section: Distress In Farmersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agrivoltaics: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach for Indian Farmers

Mahto

Sharma

John

et al. 2021

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Consequently, agricultural households’ income also witnessed a falling trend (NSSO, 2021). This process has weakened household economy of the small and marginal farmers and the early sign of this crisis was reflected by the widespread phenomenon of farmer suicides across states and over time (Singh et al, 2020). The processes of agricultural development and the stage of agricultural development differ across Indian states and regions.…”

Section: Farmers’ Protest: Evolution and Distinguishing Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Separating Wheat from the Chaff: Farm Acts, Farmers’ Protest and Outcomes

Singh

Shergill

2021

Millennial Asia

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The farmers’ protest at the outskirts of Delhi has completed one year and still continuing. It was triggered after the Government of India enacted three farm Acts in September 2020 that strive to initiate sweeping reforms in agricultural produce selling, procurement, and storage and public distribution of essential commodities. In this context, an attempt has been made in this article to examine the claim of both the government and the farmers’ unions leading the protest movement. The contribution of this study is manifold: in terms of tracing the evolution of the current farmers’ protest movement, farmer unions’ negotiations with the government, loss of human lives, and outcomes. It is found that farm Acts are structurally flawed and risk the food security of the country besides preparing ground for eviction of smallholders from agriculture altogether. The analysis of the field survey based on characteristics of 460 deceased farmers during the participation in the protest reveals that they belonged to the lowest rung of the farmers. The support to the family members left behind has come from various quarters but is inadequate. The article argues that the state autonomy to take policy decisions regarding farm Acts should be protected. The union government should develop institutional mechanism to take along all stakeholders for resolving the international and inter-state issues concerning agriculture sector.

show abstract

“…The reasons for these increasing numbers can be attributed to the gendered impact of the structural reforms since the 1990s. With more than 0.3 million farmer suicides since the mid-1990s, many houses have become female-headed and indebtedness has grown to enormous proportions (Padhi, 2012; Singh et al, 2016). Furthermore, the severe collapse of employment in the rural sector has impacted women the most; many lost agricultural work and were forced out of employment, often not even looking for work (Kannan & Raveendran, 2019).…”

Section: Women In the Contemporary Struggles Of Agricultural Workers And Peasant Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s Liberation and the Agrarian Question: Insights from Peasant Movements in India

Prasad

2021

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article explores some questions arising from recent debates on patriarchy and capitalism. The focus is on the role of women in communist-led peasant movements in India and the implications of such struggles on the project of women’s emancipation. The first section lays out a framework for discussing the interface between class consciousness and the anti-patriarchal project, whereby patriarchy is located within the structural contradictions arising out of the contestations within the process of accumulation. The second section documents the historical context, focusing on the relationship between land reforms and social transformation in semi-feudal and early capitalist contexts, and analyzes the extent to which communist-led struggles are anti-patriarchal in character. The third section turns to the participation of women in the contemporary struggles of both agricultural workers and peasant movements and underlines the new emerging dialectics between women’s and peasant organizations under a neoliberal state and with deepening agrarian distress.

show abstract

Agrarian Distress and Farmer Suicides in North India

Cited by 11 publications

References 0 publications

Agrivoltaics: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach for Indian Farmers

Agrivoltaics: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach for Indian Farmers

Separating Wheat from the Chaff: Farm Acts, Farmers’ Protest and Outcomes

Women’s Liberation and the Agrarian Question: Insights from Peasant Movements in India

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About