Yes,we all Indians say farmers are backbone of our nation.Because, the farmers are feeding us,though we don't have any concern about them.Farmers in India won't see farming as a job .It is a gift given by the god for the farmers to provide us food. 
Indians don't give respect to the farmers , as we see them like low class people .even though they are serving to our country.But now farmer who are the back bone to us suffering from unpaid loans,droughts and some other external issues.
India is an agricultural country.It contribution to gross domestic product[GDP] is between 14 to 15%.In India 70% of people depends directly or indirectly on agriculture. The death ratio of farmers is more in India .Farmers committing suicides since 1990's often by drinking pesticides which were brought for their crops due to inability of repaid loans.
REASONS-
mainly the reason for the death of farmers is reaching the basic needs for the development of the plantation or cropping
1.seed is basic and important input for getting high yield crops and growth in production .Good quality of seeds are out of reach for majority of farmers.Distribution of assured quality of seeds is critical .
2.cost of machinery[farming machines ] has become more expensive,as normal farmer is not able to spend huge a amount on that.the farmers with small land or marginal farmers it results in huge waste of human labour in low yields per capita.
3.small land holdings,irrigation becomes very difficult in small area,in that small landholding some part of the land is wasted for the boundaries.
4.agricultural marketing due to low literacy ,the farmers are depending on the local traders and middlemen for selling their cultivated crops,in some of the cases, the farmers sell the crop to the landlord who they usually borrow money.As the poor farmer is forced to sell the produced at the price that is being offered to him .In that case the middle men take away 40% of the share in the profit in this way the farmer is getting loose.
5.water is one of the major problem ,In India few states like Maharashtra and Karnataka had faced a lot of problems in the case of water.Farmers are unable to manage their crop cycles due to the unavailability of water both as in ground water and also on surface.
