2 BALANGIR FARMERS
ATTEMPT SUICIDE
Friday, 30 October 2015 | PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
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Even though the State Government has announced to provide supports
to drought-affected peasants, incidents of more debt-burdened farmers
attempting to commit suicide in Balangir district have come to the fore
According to reports, Yogeshwar Pradhan (25) of Badika village on
Wednesday drank insecticide in an attempt to commit suicide at his crop field.
He was shifted to Loisingha hospital and then to the District Headquarters
Hospital. As his condition deteriorated further, he was shifted to the Burla
medical college.
Yogeshwar had undertaken paddy cultivation in his 2.5 acres land
as well as in others’ lands on sharecropping basis. All crops were damaged due
to scanty rainfall. The loss led to argument in the family and he drank
insecticide.
In another incident, a farmer of Nunianpali village under Agalpur
block, Pradeep Seth (20), tried to commit suicide this morning by consuming
poison.
Pradeep, sharecropper, was worried as his crops were damaged.
Immediately after he consumed poison, he was rushed to DHH.
“His condition is stable now,” said CDMO Dr RN Tripathy.
Notably, two days ago a farmer, Arakshit Majhi (45), had consumed
insecticide and later died while undergoing treatment at the DHH.
Arakshit had brought loans from moneylenders and crop loss forced
him to take this extreme step.
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