FARMER'S SUICIDAL POSITION IN KARNATAKA STATE

The statistical analysis of farmers' suicide in Karnataka from different perspectives and analysis how the capitalist path of development through globalisation is the major factor responsible for the sharpening agrarian crisis in India, especially in the Karnataka states. Agriculture is a largest economic sector and plays a significant role in the overall socio economic development of our country. They depend on loan from private money lenders or from financial institutions for the cultivation of their land. They depend on agricultural income for their family expenses, education and marriage of the children. Karnataka in particular are in distress due to indebtedness, repeated failure of crops, increasing cost of production, poor quality of seeds, impact of globalization, exploitation by money lenders and businessmen and the other factors are the main causes for their distress which lead to suicides. Karnataka is the eight largest state of India having severed agrarian distress since many years.