How does the adoption of green revolution techniques resulted in farmers' suicides?

Green revolution techniques especially technology and others have increased the production cost in the agricultural sector. Marginal farmers who borrowed money to meet these expenses chose suicide as an option when the crop fails because of unexpected reasons farmers . Green revolution techniques introduced more pesticides into the villages which increased health risks and farmers started committing suicide because of the expenses for health care. Green revolution came with new technologies, which created unemployment for the marginal farmers and agricultural labourers which resulted in farmers' suicides. All of the above

Green revolution techniques especially technology and others have increased the production cost in the agricultural sector. Marginal farmers who borrowed money to meet these expenses chose suicide as an option when the crop fails because of unexpected reasons farmers .

While farmers in India for centuries have periodically faced distress due to drought, crop failures, or debt, the phenomenon of farmers’ suicides appears to be new. Sociologists have attempted to explain this phenomenon by looking at the structural and social changes that have been occurring in agriculture and agrarian society. Such suicides have become ‘matrix events’, that is, a range of factors coalesce to form an event. Many farmers, who have committed suicide were marginal farmers, who were attempting to increase their productivity, primarily by practising Green Revolution methods. However, undertaking such production meant facing several risks: the cost of production has increased tremendously due to a decrease in agricultural subsidies, the markets are not stable, and many farmers borrow heavily in order to invest in expensive inputs and improve their production. The loss of either the crop (due to spread of disease or pests, excessive rainfall, or drought), and in some cases, lack of an adequate support or market price means that farmers are unable to bear the debt burden or sustain their families