-Live Mint
Together with unpaid sugarcane arrears from mills, an errant monsoon has made the situation acute for farmers
On the night of 28 August, at 1.30am, 40-year-old sugarcane farmer Rambeer Rathi shot himself in the head with a country-made revolver. A few days earlier, Rathi, of Tikri village in Baghpat district of western Uttar Pradesh, had sold two of his buffaloes to repay a bank loan of Rs.80,000 taken last year. But even after repaying his dues, no bank was willing to extend fresh loans to him.
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