01 January 2021
Om Prakash Yadav, a 34-year-old vegetable farmer who is a resident of Muktapur panchayat in the Kalyanpur block of Biharâs Samastipur district, stands next to his destroyed harvest on 20 December. He had run a tractor over almost seventy percent of his cauliflower harvest on 14 December, as he could not find a buyer willing to pay him more than one rupee per kilogram for the vegetable. In the midst of one of the biggest farmersâ protests in India, a video of his act of desperation went viral across social media platforms. Umesh Kumar Ray
Om Prakash Yadav, a 34-year-old vegetable farmer who is a resident of Muktapur panchayat in the Kalyanpur block of Biharâs Samastipur district, stands next to his destroyed harvest on 20 December. He had run a tractor over almost seventy percent of his cauliflower harvest on 14 December, as he could not find a buyer willing to pay him more than one rupee per kilogram for the vegetable. In the midst of o