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Crops hit by frost, 5 farmers end lives by Suchandana Gupta


Their crops destroyed by frost between January 5 and 9, five farmers in Madhya Pradesh committed suicide while three are battling for their lives after consuming pesticide. The weather destroyed their standing crops of wheat, soyabean, gram, peas, opium and oranges in just five days.

Their crops gone, farmers in the state, like their counterparts in Andhra Pradesh, also faced the prospect of defaulting on repayment of loan from banks and moneylenders.

Temperatures dipped to a minimum of 2.3 degrees in Bhopal, 0.6 degrees in Mandla, 3.6 in Jabalpur, 2.9 in Gwalior, 1 degree in Rajgarh, Guna and Bundelkhand region, 0.3 in Sehore, making it the coldest winter in 30 years.

Motiram Khode, a 60-year-old farmer in Pandhurna (near Nagpur) in Chhindwara district, consumed pesticides when he awoke one morning last week to find that the frost had destroyed his entire yield of oranges. Khode had taken a loan of Rs 90,000 against his farmers credit card from a local bank. Depressed, he consumed pesticide and was rushed to a hospital in a critical condition. After struggling for three days, Khode died on Monday.

Triloki Joshi, a young farmer aged 27 and resident of Kanskhera village near Devri in Sagar district, was dejected after frost ruined the gram and peas crop standing on his eight-acre agricultural land. "The crop was growing beautifully. We were expecting a good harvest," Triloki's brother Jagannath Joshi told reporters.