Bumper harvest means bumper losses for UP potato farmers
The bumper potato harvest this year is ironically turning out to be bad news for farmers in Uttar Pradesh. With storage houses already full to capacity, the market is flooded with the produce, causing a steep fall in prices. Farmers in Kanpur, Etawah, Farukkhabad and others districts have been forced to hunt for storage houses in other districts. On Wednesday night, over a dozen people including two policemen were injured and several vehicles damaged during a protest by villagers angry over non-availability of space in a cold storage.