Farmers dump onions at tahsildar's office as prices crash

Onion growers took out a tractor rally in the town on Thursday, protesting against the fall in prices of the produce.

They expressed their ire by dumping the onions in front of the tahsildar’s office. One of the farmers tried to strangle himself, but police intervened and prevented him from ending his life. Whatever little they had grown in the kharif season, due to the scanty rainfall, had also not given them good returns, the protestors said.  

The farmers are also disappointed with the fact that they were not able to get groundnut seeds for sowing for the rabi season. They took the assistant director of the agriculture department to task for not keeping enough stocks of the seeds. The tahsildar and police officials pacified the protestors, saying steps would be taken for the supply of the necessary seeds within a week.