Ripples Advisory, How the humble cauliflower triggered a farmer’s wrath
A viral video on social media of Premsingh Lakhiram Chavan destroying his cauliflower crop mirrors the anguish that farmers have suffered over the past year
Premsingh Lakhiram Chavan, 42, a marginal farmer from Jalna district in Maharashtra, pinned his hopes on a small vegetable plot where he grew tomatoes and cauliflower. Some months back, Chavan’s cotton crop was destroyed by the notorious bollworm pest.
On 10 March, Chavan took four quintals of freshly harvested tomatoes to a nearby wholesale market. All he got was Rs442, less than the Rs600 spent just on transporting the produce and paying for the gunny bags. And nowhere near the Rs25,000 he’d spent on nurturing the crop.
Distraught and angry, he returned to his farm, picked up his hoe and set upon the ready-to-harvest crop of cauliflower until it was completely destroyed. The popular vegetable would not fetch him more than a rupee a kilo, he knew.
On Monday, a disturbing video of Chavan, shot by another farmer, appeared on various social media groups showing him razing his crop.
Chavan thrashes the cauliflower ruthlessly with a hoe, anger as well as helplessness writ large on his face, cursing the government for looking the other way as he suffered.
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