Amid COVID chaos and protests, India’s farmers eye record wheat crop By Reuters
By Mayank Bhardwaj SHAHJANPUR, India (Reuters) - While India battles soaring COVID-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a months-long sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them. Underlining the organised nature of the movement as it tries to force Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke reforms aimed at making agriculture more efficient, farmers are being ferried to and from villages in order to harvest this year's wheat crop. The logistical feat is working, at least from the farmers' point of...
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