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He also suggested that the government help book oil cake exports and demanded incentives to export groundnut oil too. Rajkot: The Saurashtra Oil Millers Association (SOMA) on Sunday estimated groundnut yield for the kharif season 2018-19 at 13.05 lakh tonnes, which is nearly 48% less compared to the previous year. It is on the basis of rainfall measured at taluka place that villages are declared scarcity hit. Cases of farmers’ suicides have already started trickling in from across Saurashtra and experts say their financial crisis would only worsen if they don’t get timely crop insurance.J K Patel, president of Gujarat Kisan Sangathan said, “Ten farmers have committed suicide in the last 20 days. We fear that more will end lives due to debt crisis.” The anger is already simmering among farmers in many villages of Khambhaliya taluka in Devbhumi Dwarka district and they have put up boards warning politicians against entering until their villages are declared scarcity-hit.Patel said, “There is discrimination in declaring the villages scarcity-hit..