K'taka: Another sugarcane farmer commits suicide

Gulbarga, May 14: Unable to sell his sugar cane crop due to the glut, one more farmer commit suicide in Karnataka today.

Mallappa Pujari (45) committed suicide by hanging himself from atree in his fields at Kadani Village about 10 km from here. He took theextreme step unable to pay his debts which he had borrowed to raise hissugar cane crop. He could not sell his crop days after harvesting it,family said.

It may be noted that another sugar cane farmer had committedsuicide in Narayanpur Village Jeawargi taluq in this district on Maynine.

On April eleven, nine sugar cane farmers had attempted masssuicide in front of Tahasildar office in Jewargi in protest against theattitude of a sugar factory which had rejected to lift their sugar cane.

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