Cotton farmer ends life in Andhra Pradesh

A debt-ridden cotton farmer ended his life by consuming insecticide in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, the police said.

According to the police, Sirsetti Ramulu (50), a cotton farmer of Mallampalli village of Husnabad mandal, had raised a cotton crop on his two acres of land. But owing to scarcity of water he could not get a good yield.

Ramulu had spent a large sum of money to dig a borewell twice. Unable to repay his debts, he consumed insecticide near his well yesterday, the police said.