Lack of research into farming suicides

11 February 1998

Lack of research into farming suicides

THE suicide rate among male farmers has consistently been twice that of other men of the same age over the last 20 years.

One-quarter of farming suicides involve men aged 65 or over, compared to 11 % for men generally.

But The Daily Telegraph says in a special report on rural communities that reserach ,which could explain the reasons, does not exist.

• The Daily Telegraph 11/02/98 page 31