The protest site at Jaisinghpur Khera on the Rajasthan-Haryana border has thousands of farmers who have travelled 1,400km from Maharashtra. Many of them have come with their families and are demanding adequate infrastructure for cultivating their crops. They say years of losses and exorbitant rates of interest charged by moneylenders have driven many of their counterparts to suicide. Farmers’ protests are not new in Maharashtra, where cultivators have been asking the government for adequate prices if their produce.
