A 49-year-old farmer from Gates village in Palghar district allegedly committed suicide today by consuming poison due to failure of crops and indebtedness, police said.



The deceased, identified as Ramesh Ananta Pashte, had reportedly taken loan of Rs 50,000 for the paddy crop from a credit cooperative society and had also mortgaged ornaments in a bank.



Wada police station inspector Sanjay Hazare said Pashte killed himself by consuming poison at his farm this morning.



"A case of accidental death has been registered and his body has been sent for postmortem," Hazare said.



Many farmers in Wada taluka lost their Rabbi crop and vegetables due to climatic conditions of late.



Pashte reportedly took the extreme step since he had lost his kharif as well as rabi crops.



Crops of many farmers in the tehsil got damaged due to change in weather and they had submitted a memorandum to the authorities concerned seeking compensation.