Abstract
Agriculture is the backbone of India as it provides employment to half of its populace. But in present scenario, it is facing numerous challenges, viz., unfair and non-remunerative price of the produce, unstructured market and supply chain, crop failure etc. But one of the alarming trend shows that farmers in our country wants to quit agriculture in mass extent and are committing suicide; that is a threat to our sustainable development. In this direction, the research was designed with the objective of developing a scale to measure resilience in relation to farmers’ life (RFL-Scale) in order to know the suicidal tendencies among the farmers. Therefore, the present study made an attempt to quantify the exact level of resilience, with the specific objective to develop and standardize a scale to measure resilience level of the farmers’ towards their life in national calamity hit region of India. The process started with selection of 54 statements and finally lists of 33 statements indicating the positive or negative resilience level were retained for scale development. The statements were edited in the light of the informal criteria suggested by Edwards. The total individual score of judges was calculated by summing up the weights given by judges to the individual statement. In order to find out the discriminating index for each item,‘t’ value was calculated using the formula and procedure given by Edwards. The scale so developed finally consisted of 18 statements. The scale can be used world-wide by research scholars, policy makers, governmental organizations, NGOs, scientists and civil societies to know the suicidal tendencies with suitable time, location and profession specific modifications.
Highlights
India is the land of agriculture and it is the main source of livelihood among the farming community from the pre-historic time and still approximately 50 percent of our population is directly dependent on agriculture1
The share of agriculture and allied sectors in India's GDP has declined to 13.7 percent in 2012-13 from 51.9 percent in 1950-512
There is some fact in the statement, but we can’t ignore the fact that the living condition of majority of farmers in our country is pitiable to such an extent that a large number of farmers in India are compelled to commit suicide and are at the verge to quit farming than to live in a miserable livelihood conditions
Summary
India is the land of agriculture and it is the main source of livelihood among the farming community from the pre-historic time and still approximately 50 percent of our population is directly dependent on agriculture. The recent trends in agriculture and allied sectors are showing some depressing pictures. The share of agriculture and allied sectors in India's GDP has declined to 13.7 percent in 2012-13 from 51.9 percent in 1950-512. There is some fact in the statement, but we can’t ignore the fact that the living condition of majority of farmers in our country is pitiable to such an extent that a large number of farmers in India are compelled to commit suicide and are at the verge to quit farming than to live in a miserable livelihood conditions. Indian youth most frustrated: WHO, as India has highest rate of suicide among young people in whole world, aged between 15 to 29 years, Lal et al, Curr.
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