<p>A bountiful harvest of potatoes in Bengal turned out to be a problem for farmers, who are rattled by falling demands and plummeting prices for their produce.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Traders refuse to buy potatoes that are already flooding the market and would only buy them for throwaway prices, leaving farmers under deeper debts and the prospect of suicide.<br /><br /> On Tuesday, 37-year-old Swapan Kundu from Khanakul village of Hooghly district committed suicide, panicked by the debts he piled paying high prices for seeds and fertilizers. <br /><br />His family and friends are stunned to realise that the higher yield of potato on his two-acre land has actually driven him to take his life. <br /><br /> “We are selling potatoes to traders and whole-sellers for Rs 2-3 per Kg. Most traders are not buying potatoes so we’re not getting good price,” Kundu’s brother-in-law Arup said.</p>
<p>A bountiful harvest of potatoes in Bengal turned out to be a problem for farmers, who are rattled by falling demands and plummeting prices for their produce.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Traders refuse to buy potatoes that are already flooding the market and would only buy them for throwaway prices, leaving farmers under deeper debts and the prospect of suicide.<br /><br /> On Tuesday, 37-year-old Swapan Kundu from Khanakul village of Hooghly district committed suicide, panicked by the debts he piled paying high prices for seeds and fertilizers. <br /><br />His family and friends are stunned to realise that the higher yield of potato on his two-acre land has actually driven him to take his life. <br /><br /> “We are selling potatoes to traders and whole-sellers for Rs 2-3 per Kg. Most traders are not buying potatoes so we’re not getting good price,” Kundu’s brother-in-law Arup said.</p>
