A Fuzzy Analysis of Causes and Consequences of Farmer's Suicide in selected talukas of Yeotmal District

Dr. Niliima Puranik

Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2018

A Fuzzy Analysis of Causes and Consequences of Farmer's Suicide in selected talukas of Yeotmal District

Dr. Niliima Puranik

Abstract :

This paper aims at analyzing two major issues, namely causes and consequence of farmer’s suicide in selected talukas of Yeotmal district. The analysis should help planners and social organizations to arrive at Strategies to overcome the deadly menace. Survey data has been used to illustrate how fuzzification can help in formulating problems when many aspects do not fall under the traditional two–valued logical domain.

The study is based on the both primary data generated from a survey, of 26 selected farmers, and secondary data, obtained from various revenue departments.

Top five factors, which lead to maximum stress, were identified by a simple mechanism of summing up the scores separately for affected and non–affected families, and then finding their differences. The factors where differences were maximum, showing that the affected has a extreme view on these, were considered at the top. Findings indicated Crop failure, and psychological factors where the top two.

Alcoholism, indebt ness and non availability of power supply were the next in order.

Fuzzyfication was used to define three fuzzy sets G(x ), M(x) and L(x