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<p>This study strives to explore the distress proneness of farmers in the agriculturally developed Cauvery Delta Zone of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry States by developing a Distress Proneness Index. Based on the severity of causing distress, 240 farmers across Cuddalore, Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam, Thiruvarur and Karaikal districts ranked 15 factors under four dimensions of distress on a Likert Scale of 0–3. It was found that farmers are highly distressed by yield and weather uncertainties, lack of irrigation infrastructure, and high input cost; moderately distressed by shortage and high wages of labour, increasing financial dependency on others, spurious seeds, lack of technical guidance, supplier-induced demand in market, and existing output market avenues; and least distressed by lack of non-farm employment opportunities, credit procedures in public sector banks, being indebted, low commodity price, and frequent electrical load shedding. Dimension-wise, Cauvery Delta farmers are highly prone to production distress with a DPI of 0.70, moderately prone to market and psychological distress with a DPI of 0.44 and 0.34, respectively, and least prone to institutional distress with a DPI of 0.30. Overall, they are moderately prone to agrarian distress with an ADPI of 0.45. Such occupational stress causes various physiological disorders in farmers. A similar exercise for the other 6 agro-climatic zones which possess varied strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats will help devise region-specific strategies to alleviate the agrarian distress of farmers in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.</p>

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Distress Proneness of Farmers in Agriculturally Developed Cauvery Delta Zone of India

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    2025年7月8日

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  • A. Pouchepparadjou,
  • M. Umamageswari,
  • R. Jayakumara Varadan,
  • S. Parthasarathi,
  • D. Cathrine

摘要

This study strives to explore the distress proneness of farmers in the agriculturally developed Cauvery Delta Zone of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry States by developing a Distress Proneness Index. Based on the severity of causing distress, 240 farmers across Cuddalore, Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam, Thiruvarur and Karaikal districts ranked 15 factors under four dimensions of distress on a Likert Scale of 0–3. It was found that farmers are highly distressed by yield and weather uncertainties, lack of irrigation infrastructure, and high input cost; moderately distressed by shortage and high wages of labour, increasing financial dependency on others, spurious seeds, lack of technical guidance, supplier-induced demand in market, and existing output market avenues; and least distressed by lack of non-farm employment opportunities, credit procedures in public sector banks, being indebted, low commodity price, and frequent electrical load shedding. Dimension-wise, Cauvery Delta farmers are highly prone to production distress with a DPI of 0.70, moderately prone to market and psychological distress with a DPI of 0.44 and 0.34, respectively, and least prone to institutional distress with a DPI of 0.30. Overall, they are moderately prone to agrarian distress with an ADPI of 0.45. Such occupational stress causes various physiological disorders in farmers. A similar exercise for the other 6 agro-climatic zones which possess varied strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats will help devise region-specific strategies to alleviate the agrarian distress of farmers in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.