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Bihar farmer says he was being forced to sell the produce below cost price A Bihar farmer destroys his cauliflower crop by driving his tractor over the plantation. Image Credit: Supplied
Patna: Amid continuing protests by Indian farmers over minimum support price (MSP) for produce, a farmer in Bihar ran his tractor over standing crop of cauliflower planted in 2.81 hectares of land as he was being forced to sell his produce for a Rs1 a kilogram much below the cost price. He had invested Rs400,000 in the vegetable business.
Om Prakash Yadav, a farmer from Muktapur village in Samastipur district, destroyed his standing cauliflower crops on Tuesday while driving the tractor himself. In a video that has gone viral on social media, the angry farmer can be seen driving the tractor from one corner of the plantation to the other, until the vegetables were destroyed. The video footage also shows the local villagers scrambling to pick up vegetables from the