Farmers’ suicides, which have been an eye-catching update for last decades, are the utmost widely discussed sensation. Poignant accounts and intense illustrations in the media have conveyed out the hindrances that lead people to this extreme step and the sensitive and economic shock that surviving family members have to undergo. The rising trends of farmer suicide cases reflect a great disaster in Indian agricultural economy due to the reprehensible and hasty failure of implementation of different agricultural policies whereas the agriculture sector is the second priority of budgeting sector in India followed by defense sector. Most of the studies forthrightly argue that the pressure of indebtedness, crop failure, rising cost of cultivation, simultaneous declining of agriculture input-output ratio, outlandish abate of agricultural product and adverse impact on economic liberalization are the most precise cause for farmer suicide. The frequencies of suicide which are more prevalent among the small farmers were recorded relatively high in Maharashtra, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka in the year of 2014. the state-specific suicidal cases showed an amalgam panorama of farmers’ suicides that became inferior after creating a surge in 2004 and 2009 were reported as much lower among the male non-farmers in 2011 and 2012 at the National level. The gradual and relative increase of farmers’ suicide case are a serious concern towards public health and livelihood sector among the agricultural dependents. The peasant suicides in India are a recent phenomenon of two decades where Andhra Pradesh too reported a quite high range of suicides. The declining growth rate of agricultural output (3.4 in 1980 to 2.3 in 1990) due to low growth of crop yield created a kind of agrarian crisis. Eventually, the agrarian sector is going through a deep crisis where the farmers suicides are the major issue and debate in social science research.
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