Hunsur:  Increasing debts followed by crop loss has driven a 50-year-old specially-abled farmer to end his life by consuming pesticides at Nagamangala village in the taluk.

The deceased farmer is Kumar (50). He leaves behind his wife and two sons.

Kumar, who owns 3.5 acre land at Nagamangala village, had taken Rs. 9.5 lakh loan from Karnataka Bank in Hunsur and Rs. 3 lakh from private financiers to grow tobacco. As rains failed and unable to repay the loans, Kumar, on Tuesday night consumed pesticides and had attempted to end his life. Though he was rushed to a hospital at Mysuru, he breathed his last on Wednesday.