Crop loss claims one more life in Jagatsinghpur

40-year-old farmer Parida hangs self after suffering crop loss in nearly six acre of land

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @Jagatsinghpur

Another farmer of Jagatsinghpur district allegedly died by suicide on Wednesday after suffering crop loss due to last month's unseasonal rains.

The farmer, 40-year-old Ashok Parida of Tanra village within Raghunathpur police limits, reportedly hanged himself in his house in the morning.

Parida's death comes in the wake of suicide by another farmer in Balikuda over the same reason last week.

Sources said Parida had grown paddy over eight acres of land, of which he owned four acres. He had taken up paddy farming in the rest four acres on a sharecropping basis.