Nashik: A 37-year-old debt-ridden farmer called Kiran Dattatreya Pawar, a resident of Borale village in the drought-hit Chandwad tehsil town of Nashik district, committed suicide by jumping into his well on Monday, police sources said here today.

According to the Vadner Bhairav police, the farmer had taken a loan from a credit society and a finance company for farming in 2006, but could not repay it after he suffered losses due to unseasonal rain and hailstorm.