Yet another farmer in the State committed suicide on Monday, reportedly distressed by crop loss and debt burden in Sundargarh district.
The deceased was identified as Purnachandra Seth, a resident of Nialpali village in the district.
Reports the Seth consumed poison in the morning soon after returning from his farmland. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died after a few hours.
Purnachandra had grown paddy on eight acre of which five acre was being cultivated on sharecropping basis.
He was forced to take extreme step due to crop loss and the rising debt burden as he had taken money from local moneylenders, his family alleged. Similarly, a farmer Goutam Seth, of Sambalpur district committed suicide on Sunday after his standing crop over 12-acre got damaged due to water scarcity.