Posted on Mar 2, 2021
India's Farmer Protests: Why Are They So Angry?
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In a dusty lot outside a wholesale market in western India, farmer Ambadas Sanap leans on the lip of his flatbed truck, surrounded by crates of green peppers and tomatoes. If he could get away from all this for just one day, he says, he'd travel to the capital to protest.
He wants his voice to be heard.
But Sanap, 44, cannot afford to take time off from laboring in his fields or hawking his produce at this sprawling government-run wholesale yard. He's got nine family members to feed.
He just sold a full crate of tomatoes for 40 rupees (about $.55 USD). The most he'll gross in a month is the equivalent of about $300. After expenses, he's lucky to break even.
He wants his voice to be heard.
But Sanap, 44, cannot afford to take time off from laboring in his fields or hawking his produce at this sprawling government-run wholesale yard. He's got nine family members to feed.
He just sold a full crate of tomatoes for 40 rupees (about $.55 USD). The most he'll gross in a month is the equivalent of about $300. After expenses, he's lucky to break even.
India's Farmer Protests: Why Are They So Angry?
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India
Farming
Agriculture
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SFC Ralph E Kelley I Can Appreciate their Concern? Without Government Ensuring their Profits? Free Market. From what I've Heard it is the Rich Grain Farmers driving the Protests they Feel they Can't Hold Up in a Free Market. The Tomato Farmers and those that Beat the Government to the Punch and Formed Their Own Cooperatives Sound Like their Doing Pretty Good. Still Pretty Hard Work and Probably Not going to Make it Rich.
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