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FARM RUT
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State name
Date of protest | Reasons for protest
Average monthly income*per agricultural
household during July 2012-June 2013
With debt continuing to mount unabated in states responsible for over Approximate average amount of outstanding
loan** per agricultural household
two-thirds of the country's foodgrain production, farmers across the country Proportion of agricultural households with
are reeling in distress. Failure to speedily resolve the crisis could lead to outstanding loan
Production of foodgrains during 2015-16
countrywide unrest (In '000 tonnes)
Total farmer suicides in 2013-2015

* The income includes income from salary/wages, net

receipt from cultivation, net receipt from farming of
Where India stands animals and net receipt from non-farm business
** Outstanding loans as on date of survey irrespective of

K6,426 K47,000 51.90 252,224 36,670 the purpose for which loans were taken
# Uttar Pradesh was the first state to announce loan
waiver in 2017. Protests in the state died down thereafter

Punjab Haryana Madhya Pradesh West Bengal

January 2017 | Loss due to May 25, 2017 | 1) Demand June 2017 | Demand for May 22, 2017 | Demand for
demonetisation for farm loan waiver loan waiver fair prices for produce
January 2017 | Poor potato prices 2) Demand for farmers' pension
K6,210 K3,980
K18,059 K14,434 K32,100 K17,800
K119,500 K79,000 45.7 51.5
53.2 42.3 30,213 17,776
28,408 16,382 3,578 230
271 K10,000 cr 655
Debt waiver announced
on June 19, 2017 Chhattisgarh K5,177
December 8, 2016 |
1) Low prices of K10,200
crops
2) Demand for loan
37.2
UT TAR PRADESH#
Rajasthan K36,359 cr waiver 6,959
June 2017 | Demands include
raising of milk prices, hike in
Debt waiver announced
on April 4, 2017
1,709
minimum support price (MSP)
by 50% and loan waiver

K7,350
K70,500
61.8
18,101
741

Odisha
Maharashtra March 2017 | Crop loss
May 2017 | Low prices K30,500 cr (includes post-harvest loss)
and distress sale of produce
for farm produce Debt waiver announced
on June 11, 2017
Telangana
K4,976
K7,386 May 3, 2017 | Dip in K28,200
K54,700 price of chillies 57.5
57.3 K6,311 6,590
8,067 K8,165 cr K93,500 302
11,441 Debt waiver
announced 89.1
on June 21, 2017 5,025
Karnataka 2,747 (Only for 2014 and 2015)
August 19, 2016 | Onion prices crash.
Farmers throw produce on the road
June 8, 2017 | Protest in support of farmers Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh
demand in MP and Maharashtra
June 9, 2017 | 1) Demand for a comprehensive May 3, 2017 | Dip in prices of
drought relief package chillies. Angry farmers dump their
K8,832 2) Timely payment of MSP produce in all major market yards
K97,200 3) Demand for formation of a Cauvery and set it on fire
management board to resolve irrigation issues
77.3 K5,979
9,969 K6,980 K123,400
3,740 K115,900 92.9
82.5 10,572
Prepared by DTE/CSE Data Centre
Infographics: Raj Kumar Singh; Analysis: Ishan Kukreti and Shreeshan Venkatesh
11,941 3,562
Data source: Food grain production data as per 4th Advance Estimates for 2015-16 included in reply to Rajya Sabha
Unstarred Question No.1930; Suicide data- National Crime Records Bureau.; Farm income and loan data- Situation
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Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households, NSS 70th round

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