RECENT FARMER PROTESTS

2017: Angered that their tomato crop was selling at only 50 paise a kg after demonetisation (traders did not have the cash to buy the crop), farmers in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district spread their tomatoes on the road and made trucks crush them.

2017: An acute shortage of water, the delayed effects of demonetization and other sundry woes saw farmers from Tamil Nadu come to Delhi to get Prime Minister Modi to intervene.The loss of crops to flood, water-shortage and money crisis led to suicide by as many as 106 farmer. Farmers from Thanjavur and Tiruchirappalli began a protest with skulls, mice and grass clothes as their props to seek better support for their produce and a loan waiver for peasants in Tamil Nadu.The protest lasted 41 days.

2017-18: Sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat region wrote letters to PM Narendra

Modi and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath last month, asking to be allowed to commit suicide after their dues remained unpaid for more than a year. The Chief Minister met ehm but asked them to stop growing cane as consumption of sugar caused diabetes.

2017: After a glut in chilli production that led to prices falling, chilli farmers in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana began burning standing crops in their fields. The centre had to intervene and announce procurement of red chilli to offset part of the losses.

2018: Farmers in Maharashtra emptied milk van onto the road in protest against low prices of milk. They also prevented goods trucks from carrying fruit and vegetables to mandis and made them empty their stock on the sides of the road. The stir has since ended after the state government intervened.