-Livemint.com
End of the commodity super cycle, with cotton prices touching record lows, adds to growers’ woes in Telangana
Hyderabad/Warangal: On New Year’s eve, Jinukula Rajasekhar, a young farmer from Shamirpet village in Warangal district of Telangana, consumed a lethal combination of alcohol and profenofos, an insecticide sprayed on crops to kill pests. He died four days later in hospital.
"On the evening of 31 December he called me from the field to say he drank pesticide," said his elder brother Jinukula Raju. "He wanted me to pick him up and save his life."
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