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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Another farmer suicide in Burdwan by Debajyoti Chakraborty

Another farmer suicide in Burdwan by Debajyoti Chakraborty

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published Published on Nov 20, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 20, 2011

Safar Ali Mollah, 18, a paddy farmer, committed suicide by drinking pesticide at Kalitikuri village under Bhatar police station area on Friday night. Only three days ago, Bhabani Porel (45), paddy farmer of Chanduli village under Burdwan Sadar Police Station area committed suicide by hanging from a tree.

Safar was unable to sell paddy crop at the Minimum Support Price (MSP) stipulated by the state government which landed him in a huge debt. He had taken loans at a high interest from mahajans.due to lack of selling of paddy crop ( boro crop earlier and now aman) and failing to sell them at the leading to huge debt at high interest from mahajans.

Only three days ago, Bhabani Porel (45), a paddy farmer of Burdwan's Chanduli village committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree. While on November 7, Madhai Ghosh, a farmer of Raina's Jakta village had commited suicide by consuming poison. In either case, the farmers had failed to sell the agricultural produce of the last season. With unsold produce piled up in godowns and constant pressure from moneylenders, the frustrated farmers killed themselves.

Talking to the TOI on Saturday, Babar Ali Mollah, the victim's elder brother said that he and his widow mother were watching television on Friday.

"Around 9.30pm, Safar arrived with blood coming out of his mouth. He confessed that frustration led him to consume pesticide. We took him to Burdwan Medical College Hospital at around 9.50pm but he died at around 11.30pm," victim's brother Babar Ali Mollah said. who works in Mumbai as embroidery artist and had come in ID festival in home.

Babar said that his father Akbar Ali Mollah died few years ago, and younger brother Safar and mother Rijia Begum stayed together. "We have seven bighas of land and Safar used to cultivate on it," he added. He failed to sell 120 sacs of IR-36 paddy crop harvested during the boro season. Since then he had been incurring debts in the market.

An undettered Safar, after taking loan from mahajans, cultivated aman crop on the seven bighas thinking that the situation will improve. "But due to high cost of fertilizer, and increase in wages of daily labourers he could harvest paddy from only one-and-a-half bighas," alleged his uncle Seikh Mohammed Ibrahim. There was no other family problem of this family other than the lack of selling of the paddy, he confirmed.

The two farmer suicides in the rice bowl of the state within a span of six days have created a stir.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited the district headquarters at Burdwan along with top bureaucrats and her cabinet colleagues and directed to stop black marketing of fertilizers and purchase of rice at MSP by rice mills from farmers.

The Times of India, 20 November, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Another-farmer-suicide-in-Burdwan/articleshow/10798188.cms


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