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“Increasingly young men who take to agriculture are not finding brides and many of those who do find suffer from not being able to reach the expectations of a better life that their spouses expect from them. Consequently, many of them are taking extreme steps unable to bear the ignominy of being looked down upon. All this originates from the drought which had paralysed the economy of each and every farmer family in the district

"As many as 22 distressed farmers have committed suicide in the last three months"​

“It is getting increasingly tough to feed my family. Debts are not easy to come by. Even those who have money don’t lend fearing that I might not be able to repay,

"Anantapur district is among the worst hit by two years of drought with fallouts rattling social structures. It is impacting the present and future of hundreds of people"

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