There was no farmer or farm labourer suicide in Odisha in the year 2018, according to a report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on ‘Crime in India-2018’.
However, a total of 10,349 people involved in the farming sector, including 5,763 farmers or cultivators or agricultural labourers, committed suicide in the country in 2018, the report stated.
It further said that the number of suicides in the farming sector in India in 2018 accounted for 7.7 per cent of the total suicide cases, i.e., 1,34,516.
As per the report, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Goa, Chandigarh, Daman and Diu, Delhi, Lakshadweep and Puducherry reported zero farmer suicide in 2018.