Farmer commits suicide over crop loss in MP

A 50-year-old farmer, devastated by crop loss due to recent hailstorm, allegedly committed suicide at Umari village here today, police said.
Aulakh Singh Yadav hanged himself from a tree at his agriculture field in the village, around 7 kms from here.
Yadav left a suicide note in which he said he was unable to bear the heavy loss of crops, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Amrit Meena said.
Yadav is survived by his six children, including five daughters. He had suffered huge crop losses due to natural calamities recently and previously years too, his family members said.
They said he had loaned Rs 80,000 from a person to buy an old tractor and had promised the creditor to repay the money this month.

Meanwhile, Congress MLA Govind Singh from Lahar area alleged that the farmer ended his life as the crop damage survey was not done properly.
The survey had wrongly pegged his crop loss at just 15 per cent which left the farmer shattered and prompted him to commit suicide, Singh told reporters here.
He demanded that the district collector be booked for murder and conducting faulty survey of Yadav's field.