Consequences of farmer suicide in India and action plans for stopping farmer suicides

India is an agrarian country with around 60% of its people depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture. Agriculture in India is often attributed as gambling with monsoon of its almost exclusive dependency on precipitation from monsoons. The failure of these monsoon can lead to a series of droughts lack of better prices and exploitation of the farmers by middlemen, all of which have led to a series of suicides committed by farmers across India (Shiva Vandana, 2013). Agriculture occupies an important position in India economy. India ranks second worldwide in farm output.