Over 10,700 Farmers Committed Suicide in 2023: NCRB

More than 10,700 people from the farming sector committed suicide during 2023 and 38.5 per cent of them were from Maharashtra and 22.5 per cent from Karnataka, according to areport of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

- Press Trust Of India

A total of 66.2 per cent (1,183,416) of the total suicide victims (1,71,418) in 2023 were having an annual income of less than Rs 1 lakh.

As many as 10,786 people involved in the farming sector, consisting of 4,690 farmers or cultivators and 6,096 agricultural labourers, committed suicides during 2023, accounting for 6.3 per cent of total suicides victims in the country, the report said.

Out of the 4,690 farmer or cultivator suicides, a total of 4,553 were male and 137 were female and out of the 6,096 suicides committed by agricultural labourers during 2023, as many as 5,433 were male and 663 were female.