Farmer suicides in the State continued unabated as two more such incidents were reported from Kalahandi and Jharsuguda districts on Sunday. A debt-ridden farmer committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his house at Badabahal village under Kolabira block in Jharsuguda district.
The deceased identified as Sashi Kishan (33) had taken a loan of `40,000 from the Kolabira Cooperative Society and had grown paddy crops in three acre land. Due to repeated crop loss, he was in great stress for loan repay.
losing mental balance, the hapless farmer lastly took such an extreme step. The dead body was handed over to his family members on Sunday after postmortem. However, no officials have yet visited the spot casing discontentment among the villagers.
In yet another incident, Bira Majhi, a farmer of Bhanrapur village under Kalhandi district’s Koksara police station, committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree.
Bira had grown paddy in two acres of land this year for which he had borrowed loans. But his hope for a better harvest was lost as he sustained heavy crop loss due to scanty rainfall. Under severe mental stress, Bira allegedly committed suicide, said family sources. Bira’s two sons are working as migrant labourers outside the State, family sources added.