Tamil Nadu farmer ends life over crop loss

Distressed over the damage caused to his crops by disease, a 58-year-old farmer in Tuticorin district ended his life by hanging from a tree close to his land on Saturday. “Forgive me Mithra,” farmer Narayasamy of Pillayarnatham village near Kovilpatti wrote on a wall with clay in Tamil in his last message to three-year-old granddaughter.

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