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The farmers burnt their crop on acres and acres of paddy field as they could not stop the attack of brown planthopper pest.
The helpless farmers took the extreme step as they didn’t get any support from the government to address the pest attack on their paddy crops, said a villager on the condition of anonymity .
Yesterday, Brunda Sahu, a farmer of Kalapani village in Bargarh district ,who had burnt his damaged crop on the paddy field on Tuesday after failing to address the pest problem, committed suicide by consuming poison at his paddy field.