Two more farmers, one each from Bargarh and Sambalpur districts, died at the Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR) at Burla on Monday while undergoing treatment after consumption of poison.
According to reports, Paresh Khadia, a farmer of Babaji Math village in Bargarh district, had taken loans from a bank and some private moneylenders and undertaken paddy cultivation which was fully damaged due to scanty rainfall.
Unable to repay the loan, Paresh consumed poison on December13, sources said.
Similarly, Netrotsav Juadi, a farmer of Vikampur village in Sambalpur district, had been admitted in the VIMSAR after he consumed poison two days ego.
Juadi had too borrowed money from local moneylenders to grow paddy in his field. He suffered huge crop loss due to scanty rainfall.