‘Discourse on Farmer Studies’ : Perception of Researchers and Unfold Issues

New economic reforms in India driven by globalization have brought significant changes in all sectors including agriculture. Indian farming drastically changed due to increasing cost of production, uneven market price, decreasing holding size of land, lack of man power, high investment in farming machinery, development induced displacement, terminator seeds, and market oriented policies and so on. Result of these changes was increase in farmer distress, agitation and farmer suicides. Along with the respective governments various agencies and other stake holders are trying to face the situation. Last three decades issue of agrarian crises and farmer suicides is central theme of various researcher and writing, especially in the stream of social sciences. These days focus of writers and thinkers is flooded with agrarian studies and trend continues. Studies on farmer distress are mainly criticizing loan weaver policies of the respective governments, expenditures of loan amount on various heads instead on farming, problem on repayment and failure of government machineries. After a thorough assessment it seems that output of this particular discourse is very important for agriculture issues however the perception of writers and researcher left some questions unanswered and unfold issues... This paper is attempt to highlight those unfold issues of famer distress, suicides and agricultural crisis missing in discourse on farmer studies. This paper is descriptive in nature and based on the secondary sources.