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Indian Journal of Agriculture Business

Volume  6, Issue 1, January-June 2020, Pages 33-37
 

Original Article

Farmers and Stressful Farming: The Conflict and Chaos

Swagata Ghoshal1, Monirul Haque2, Sankar Kumar Acharya3

1 PG student, 2 PhD Scholar, 3 Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur 741252, West Bengal, India.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijab.2454.7964.6120.4

Abstract

Indian farmers, especially the owners of marginal and fragmented holdings, are running and reeling under incessant stress and drudgery. The stressors are dwindling and uncertain income, insurmountable debt trap and unpredictable climate. When costs are simmering, returns are extremely stoic; the farmers are being thrown into a hell of chaos. The sociology of Indian farming steers down the pathway of chaos and entropy; farmers’ suicides are the shocking indicator to measure the unfathomable agony and distress.


Keywords : Stress; Chaos; Entropy; Conflict; Indicator; Suicides.
Corresponding Author : Swagata Ghoshal