Indian Press Coverage of Farmers’ Suicides in Andhra Pradesh: A Content Analysis

J. Babu, S. Rao
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India, consisting of 16 percent of world population subsists only on 2.4 percent land resources.  Agriculture is the only source of livelihood to the two third of the population which gives employment to 57 percent of the workforce. Agriculture in India is often regarded as gambling with monsoons, because of its almost exclusive dependency on precipitation from monsoons. The failure of monsoons leading to a series of droughts, lack of better prices, exploitation by middlemen, and Gene Modified (GM) seed companies who are selling expensive cotton seeds and fertilizers, all of which have led to a series of suicides committed by farmers across India. Farmers' suicides are a complex phenomenon. Since the 1990s farmer suicides in India have made headlines.  The journalist   Palagummi Sainath highlighted that 17,500 farmers were suicides between 2002 to 2006. The government figures show 14,000 farmers took their own lives in 2011. The total number of farmers’ suicides crossed 3 lakh mark till in 2014.  That most suicides occurred in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Punjab. This study seeks to investigate news items on farmers’ suicides in the Indian newspapers. A quantitative content analysis was adopted in this research. This study used two English dailies i.e. The Hindu and The New Indian Express and two Telugu dailies i.e. Eenadu and Andhrajyothi were taken for analysis. It is not a random sample.  In this, a purposive sample method was adopted. The selection time period was one year i.e. from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2015. Keeping in view ten subject categories have been mainly identified for this research. All the data collected were analyzed simple percentage and mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, Chi-square have been used for analysis. 
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印度媒体对安得拉邦农民自杀事件的报道:内容分析
占世界人口16%的印度,土地资源只占世界的2.4%。农业是三分之二人口的唯一生计来源,为57%的劳动力提供了就业机会。印度的农业通常被认为是季风的赌博,因为它几乎完全依赖于季风的降水。季风的失败导致了一系列的干旱,缺乏更好的价格,中间商的剥削,以及转基因种子公司出售昂贵的棉花种子和肥料,所有这些都导致了印度各地农民的一系列自杀事件。农民自杀是一个复杂的现象。自20世纪90年代以来,印度农民的自杀事件一直是头条新闻。记者Palagummi Sainath强调,从2002年到2006年,有17500名农民自杀。政府数据显示,2011年有14000名农民自杀。截至2014年,农民自杀总数超过30万。大多数自杀事件发生在安得拉邦、马哈拉施特拉邦、卡纳塔克邦、喀拉拉邦和旁遮普邦。本研究旨在调查印度报纸上有关农民自杀的新闻项目。本研究采用定量含量分析方法。这项研究使用了两份英文日报,即《印度教徒报》和《新印度快报》,以及两份泰卢固语日报,即《Eenadu》和《Andhrajyothi》进行分析。这不是一个随机样本。本研究采用目的抽样法。选取时间为一年,即2015年1月1日至2015年12月31日。本研究主要确定了十个主题类别。收集到的所有数据均采用简单百分比和平均值分析,标准差、方差分析、卡方分析。
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