Thursday, February 4, 2010

10 principles of suicide prevention

Suicide among experienced farmers is a great loss today. Based on my researches and field experiences, I like to share some principles of preventing suicide among the farmers.

1. Develop competency in reading, writing and arithmetic

Basic knowledge about above 3 will help you to develop competency to overcome current challenges in societal transformation. People around you can misdirect from agriculture or land cultivation.

2. Do not be blind followers

Patient hearing to lessons provided by the trainers, dealers and neighbourers is important. But do not be blind followers. Always think that you have long years of experiences developed out of your experimenting mind.

3. Be good experimenter

Make small plot of land for your experiment. Do not spread fertilizers or pesticides over whole plot. Do experiment and then use it. Your experiment will prevent you from blind administration of pesticides. Remember that all insects are not dangerous for the plant. Some insects help the plants to grow, some insects can kill bad insects. Plant grows out of bio-diversity.



4. Routine accounting

Maintain one ledger book and write each amount of income, expenditure and excess expenditure.

5. Use medicinal plants

Medicinal plants within intervals of plants can stop your excess expenditure for pesticides. This will stop damage in bio diversity. Allow more air and light for growing plants. Air can control bad gases coming out from soil.

6. Change your value

You always think of profit. No, profit is not your value. Always think of social responsibility as your value. You are ploughing lands not for individual profit but for providing daily foods to larger society.

7. Develop social networking

Do not keep yourself within your walls during depression. Engage yourself social networking. Form social network among farmers in your village.

8. Motivate others to plantation

People around you may not like plantation. Motivate them towards plantation. Do not pay attention to the words that farming has no profit. It is a loss.

9. Education through gardening

Encourage garden based education in your place. Teach your kids through gardening, or plantation.

10.Control bad cues

Always control the cues that can demotivate you from agriculture.

3 comments:

संदीप नारायण शेळके said...

Namaste Dr. Dattaji,
Nice one. I'm also writing about the suicides of farmer on कृषीदेश.
Please help me to come up with a solution to the farmers issues.

Dhanyawad!
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Dr. D. Dutta Roy, Ph.D. said...

Thanks for announcing Krishi desh. Hope, you will write ten principles in krishidesh.

संदीप नारायण शेळके said...

Namaste Dr. Dattaji,
I'll definitely put this principles, with due reference, in next post as a probable solution to the farmer's crisis.
Dhanyawad!
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