Agro-psychological counselling: Concept and process

Résumé

With the rapid changes in climate, agricultural technology, and information sciences, farmers are perceiving the farming environment to be more dynamic and complex (Dutta Roy, 2012). Possibly, due to the environmental uncertainties and belief in their inability to cope with sudden changes, a large number of farmers are committing suicide. In order to reduce the incidence of suicide in farming community, attention should be paid to improve self-efficacy level of agricultural farmers through agro-psychological counseling. This paper discusses (a) incidence and reasons for farmer suicide; and (b) concept,and processes of agro-psychological counseling. INDE SUICIDE-COMPLÉTÉ MILIEU-RURAL COUNSELING ACCESSIBILITÉ-SERVICE SANTÉ-MENTALE