Just a few hundred metres from the clashes at Shambhu, langar is being distributed to farmers, a shop selling handkerchiefs has a field day due to the tear gas shelling, and young men resort to self-policing to keep a semblance of order while parking vehicles.
About 1,500 cooperatives have become members and with time, Shah said, the National Cooperative Export Limited will also emerge as a successful venture like IFFCO, KRIBHCO and Amul.
Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh and Telangana have buoyant agriculture sectors that also engage a larger share of their populations than the national average. They can decisively swing electoral outcomes.
Bhambu claims his kinnow fruits are of high quality and traders (wholesalers and those with fruit waxing plants) make advance bookings, saving him from going and selling his produce at the mandis.