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One afternoon in August 2008, at the beginning of my first stage of field research into reports of farmers’ suicide in Wayanad district, kerala, i found myself in front of the huge desk of a senior agricultural researcher of the ambalavayal Regional agricultural Research Station2 (RaRS). i had come to this particular region because Wayanad had in 2006 been declared a “suicide-prone district” by the government of india and was described in the english-language press as a suicide hotspot.3 I expected a straightforward confirmation of an epidemic of farmers’ suicides from the research officer. However, when I raised the issue, he exclaimed with confidence: “No real farmer has committed suicide in Wayanad.” “Ninety-five percent of them [i.e. the suicides],” he continued, “borrow money to spend on some other purpose. Seventy-five to eighty-five percent of agrarian loans are not used for agricultural purposes. They spend it as dowry or for their children’s education. A debt relief in Wayanad would only benefit undeserving elements.” after having denied the reality of farmers’ suicides, however, the research officer went on to talk about the decline of agriculture in Wayanad. As a metropolitan government officer stationed in this remote hill district—

Farmers' Suicide and the Moral Economy of Agriculture: Victimhood, Voice, and Agro-Environmental Responsibility in South India