Analysis on Farmer Suicides: A study with reference to the year 2015
Keywords:
Loan waiver, Ordered Logistic Regression, Irrigation, Farmer SuicidesAbstract
This paper explores the linkages of farmer suicides with various factors for the year 2015. The analysis suggests, farmers tend to not opt for suicides when production, productivity and irrigation facilities of certain crops are improved/increased. Normal rainfall and excess rainfall shows less likelihood of farmer suicides compared to non- farmer suicides. Based on our analysis the loan waiver in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana could not significantly determine the fall or rise in suicides of farmers compared to non-farmers.
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