Another debt-ridden farmer, Prashant Kalyanrao Patil, on Saturday ended his life by hanging in his house at Avaralli village in Afsalpur taluk in Kalaburagi district.
The 34-year-old is the eighth farmer to end his life due to raising debts and failure of crop in Kalaburagi district this year.
The deceased had availed a loan of Rs. 1 lakh from Pragati Krishna Grameena Bank, Rs. 50,000 from a local cooperative society, and unspecified amounts from private moneylenders.
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Patil, who owned eight acres of rain-fed land in Avaralli, had sold 3.5 acres last year to repay some of the loans.
According to his family members, in the past few days the farmer was depressed under the pressure of repayment of loans.
Patil is survived by wife, two daughters and a son. He could not take up any sowing operations on the remaining land this kharif season due to scanty rainfall.
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The former MLA, M.Y. Patil, visited the family of the deceased. He demanded that the government should waive off loans availed by Prashant Kalyanrao Patil, and adequately compensate the farmers in distress.