mandya three more debtridden farmers from mysuru and mandya districts committed suicide in the past 24 hours mandya districts kr pet taluk accounted for two deaths this comes on top of a wave of farmers deaths that the state has seen in the past two weeks on account of rising loans or arrears from sugar factories police said lokesh 45 reportedly committed suicide by jumping into the hemavathi river in kr pets muddanahalli village as he couldnt clear rs 2 lakh loan his wife jayanti said the family suffered huge crop loss and sold the salvaged yield for a pittance he had borrowed rs 70000 by pledging ornaments in a bank and rs 40000 from vijaya bank in the second case pradeepa 38 consumed pesticide in his farm in the districts doddatarahalli village in k r pet taluk on wednesday night his wife tayamma saw him writhing in pain and shifted him to hospital where he was declared dead though pradeepa owned land he worked in other farms as a labourer he was under pressure to clear nearly rs 2 lakh borrowed from a cooperative society and private moneylenders a family member said anegola primary cooperative society director puttatayamma confirmed he had borrowed rs 1 lakh from them tayamma has filed a complaint charging moneylenders with abetting her husbands suicide in the third incident rajegowda 57 ended his life at his residence in hunsur on wednesday rajegowda of kiranguru in hunsur taluk was not keeping good health he had borrowed money from friends in the village