Farm suicides up 2% in 2015

According to the data of NCRB, of the 12,602 persons, 8,007 were farmers or cultivators

 Around 12,602 persons in the farm sector committed suicide in 2015, almost 2 per cent more than in 2014, highlighting the distress in rural areas of India because of two consecutive years of drought.

According to the data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), of the 12,602 persons, 8,007 were farmers or cultivators, while the remaining 4,595 were farm labourers.

People engaged in the farm sector comprise farmers and farm labourers.

Both in 2014 and 2015, the number of suicides in the farm sector was 9.4 per cent of the total.

The number of farmers committing suicide rose more