 "Customers buy vegetables from a stall at a market in Ahmedabad")
Finding no buyers for the produce, Chhattisgarh farmers on Monday distributed vegetables free of cost in the state capital as a mark of protest.
The farmers have been taking vegetables in 2,00,000 hectares of land in the state, which contributes supply of over 25 per cent of country’s total potato demand. Other vegetables grown in the state are also distributed across the country.
Following favourable climatic condition, Chhattisgarh had a bumper production of vegetables in the kharif season. But the farmers failed to have respite. For, the price of vegetables had come down resulting in severely affecting the demand of the produce.
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