Cauvery Crisis: Crop Fails, Tamil Nadu Farmer Commits Suicide | Read

70-year-old S Govindaraj, a farmer in Tamil Nadu's Thiruvarur district, sowed paddy hoping the Cauvery waters would irrigate his four-acre field. But the saplings he had planted began dying as the water released from the reservoir of Mettur Dam in the district did not reach tail end areas where his farm was located. Unable to repay a loan of Rs. 50,000, the farmer killed himself consuming pesticide, his family says. He was found dead near his field on Thursday.