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. 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. District officials said his family members saw him lying unconscious and took him to a nearby hospital, where he was declared brought dead.The officials said Shewankar owned six acres of land and had taken a loan of about Rs 3 lakh from a local cooperative society and from friends in the village. 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. Bachchhav, who was unmarried, owned 1.07 hectare land and had a loan of over Rs 65,000.The third farmer, Vasant Bankat Patil (45), consumed poison at his home in Sayane village on Thursday morning. He passed away at a local hospital in Malegaon on Friday. He owned 0.85 hectare land and had a loan of Rs 1.5 lakh to repay. He is survived by his wife and two children. The district officials were finding out which crops Bachchhav and Patil cultivated.

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