Hardly a day goes by when farmers are not committing suicides. Now a farmer from US Nafar district of Uttarakhand reeling under serious debt obligations has taken his life, reports Hindustan Times.
This is the second incident of a farmer taking the extreme step in the state within ten days. A farmer in Pithorgarh had committed suicide after he received recovery notice from the rural co-operative bank.
There is an increased incidence of suicide among farmers in India amid demands for loan waivers as fall in the prices of their produce and erratic monsoons play havoc with them across the country.