While farmer suicides in Maharashtra's Vidarbha are quite an infamous affair, the ones in Wayanad, however, mostly go unnoticed. And, this makes the situation worse for the district that is otherwise abundant in natural resources. Ruling governments and political parties have, year after year, ignored the farmers and their families.

A large number of farmers have committed suicide in the region over the years but most of these have been treated as isolated cases by the government. Six farmers chose death in the last one year. Krishna Kumar from Kattikulam, Wayanad became the latest victim of debt on March 28. He was found hanging in a coffee plantation near his house. Kumar had borrowed over R5.50 lakh from a cooperative bank and his friends, which he could not repay due to crop loss, it was later learnt.