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Drought & Farmers’ Suicides in Vidarbha: Review

Author(s):

Sangeeta S. Kumble , Atharva College of Engineering,Malad (W), Maharashtra, India

Keywords:

Regional Disparities, Farmers’ suicides, Corrective measures, Droughts

Abstract

Major issues of Regional Disparities play an important role at the International, National as well as State levels. As per Prof. V. M. Dandekar’s committee report which points out Marathwada and Vidarbha as backward regions. Vidarbha’s districts shows more farmers’ suicides reported as compared to rest of Maharashtra. In this paper we are going to identify some of the root causes and the corrective measures to reduce the number of farmers’ suicides.

Other Details

Paper ID: NCTAAP143
Published in: Conference 4 : NCTAA 2016
Publication Date: 29/01/2016
Page(s): 613-617

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