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41 year old Sugali Nagamma stands with her 18 year old daughter Devi, in their fields near the village of Kapiripalli in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. Her husband, Mr Narayanaswamy Naik, a farmer, committed suicide three months ago, after the worst drought this region has experienced in two decades. "That day he was in a heavy depression, he bought a tin of pesticide and started drinking from it. I tried to take it away from him, but he died in front of us." The family have had to borrow money over the last five years due to successive crop failures. Sugali has five children and has had to take four of them out of school to work in the fields to begin to pay off the debts. "I'm crying inside, I have no support from anyone."