Farmer ends life due to crop loss, mounting debts in Sathya Sai district

A 38-year-old farmer reportedly ended his life due to prolonged crop loss and mounting debts in Gaukanapalli village of Nambulapulakunta mandal in Sri Sathya Sai district on Sunday night.The deceased, Repana Venkatesh, cultivated groundnuts on his 8.5 acres, but the crop reportedly withered due to inadequate rainfall,

Local farmers have suffered six-figure losses because of extreme downpours since May, with a farm in northern Hong Kong flooded for seven hours during heavy rain on Sunday. Leung Yat-shun of Shun Sum Yuen farm in Yuen Long said on Monday that efforts to grow tens of thousands of sunflowers had been a washout since May,