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Agricultural households are trying to cope with the suicide of an earning member of the family by borrowing more, skimping on food and even taking recourse to bonded labour, a new study has found. Commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the report Agrarian Crisis and Farmers’ Suicides: An Empirical Study of Endemic State is based on a 2017-18 primary survey of 200 families affected by farm suicides. Spread across four states—Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana—that accounted for the maximum number of suicides, the study was conducted by the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), Hyderabad, and submitted to the NHRC in March.