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Bad crop, fear of loan default drives MP farmer to suicide by Suchandana Gupta


After Andhra Pradesh, damaged crops coupled with the fear of defaulting on loan repayment has come to haunt growers in Madhya Pradesh. In the first case of suicide by a farmer in the state in recent times, a 35-year-old agriculturist of Harrai village in Damoh district ended his life by consuming insecticide on Wednesday. Nandlal Yadav, the farmer, was depressed after the failure of two successive crops.

In Andhra Pradesh, six farmers died in one week as they could not bear the losses suffered due to crop failure.

''First, pests destroyed a standing soya crop in the kharif season and this week he discovered that insects had eaten the 'arhar' lentil crop. The crop was so badly damaged that it couldn't have been salvaged. Nandlal, who had taken a loan of Rs 80,000 from a local moneylender, was devastated,'' his brother Raja Ram told journalists.

Nandlal consumed the insecticide he had kept for spraying in the fields. He died on way to the nearest health centre.

District collector SPS Saluja said the district revenue department was conducting an inquiry into Nandlal's death.
Necessary action will be taken after the report is submitted, he added.