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NASHIK: Three farmers with loans to repay ended their lives in separate incidents in the drought-hit Malegaon taluka of Nashik district on Thursday and Friday. The district officials were finding out which crops Bachchhav and Patil cultivated. He owned 0.85 hectare land and had a loan of Rs 1.5 lakh to repay. He is survived by his wife, four children and aged parents.3 farmers with loan burden end lives in NashikThere have been several incidents in Nashik district where farmers, angry by the paltry wholesale prices offered for their onions, have thrown their produce on the roads or dumped them in their fields.Another farmer , Chetan Bachchhav (23), hanged himself to death at his home in Nandgaon village on Friday. Two of them consumed poison while the third hanged himself.Dnyaneshwar Shewankar (35) of Kandhane village consumed poison and lay on his stock of unsold onions at his storage facility on Friday..