A farmer of Nuagaon village in Dhenkanal district, who had consumed pesticide after crop loss and was admitted to a private hospital in Cuttack, died on Friday.
The farmer Arun Baran was under tremendous mental pressure after his crops failed. The people from whom he had borrowed money constantly pestered him to return the money. Unable to shoulder the debt burden, he consumed a pesticide which he had brought to spray on the eggplants on March 29. He was admitted to the Dhenkanal district Headquarters Hospital. But as his condition worsened, he was shifted to a private hospital but unfortunately the doctors could not save him, said the deceased farmer’s brother Bipin Kumar Baral.