Farmers Sell Cattle

As hundreds of millions of Indians remain locked down to stem the spread of coronavirus, some of its cattle are getting treated to strawberries and broccoli that farmers are struggling to transport and sell in cities amid the three-week lockdown. Demand for such premium farm produce typically jumps in the summer, but with India's farm supply chain ...

About 22 km from Bulandshahr, a bustling town in western Uttar Pradesh, is a cattle market where traders and farmers gather to buy and sell every Monday. Locals say the weekly market is a century old. On this Monday, it wears a desolate look.

Hard-pressed to provide enough fodder and water at a time of drought, many farmers in Karnataka are now trying to sell their cattle. At a cattle fair on a highway near Challakere in Chitradurga district, farmers can be seen cleaning horns and washing bullocks under the merciless May sun.

When Babubhai Patel had the second of his three daughters, fellow villagers sympathised with him. The poor cattle farmer would have to sell off his cows to marry off his daughters they said aloud. For no one in Kangvi, a village of 200-odd inhabitants in Gujarat, had even been to college. And like many of their brothers in India's rural heartland, ...

With no fodder or water for the cattle, the drought this year has forced farmers to resort to distress sale of their cattle.

As hundreds of millions of Indians remain locked down to stem the spread of coronavirus, some of its cattle are getting treated to strawberries and broccoli that farmers are struggling to transport and sell in cities amid the three-week lockdown. Demand for such premium farm produce typically jumps in the summer, but with India's farm supply chain ...

About 22 km from Bulandshahr, a bustling town in western Uttar Pradesh, is a cattle market where traders and farmers gather to buy and sell every Monday. Locals say the weekly market is a century old. On this Monday, it wears a desolate look.

Hard-pressed to provide enough fodder and water at a time of drought, many farmers in Karnataka are now trying to sell their cattle. At a cattle fair on a highway near Challakere in Chitradurga district, farmers can be seen cleaning horns and washing bullocks under the merciless May sun.

When Babubhai Patel had the second of his three daughters, fellow villagers sympathised with him. The poor cattle farmer would have to sell off his cows to marry off his daughters they said aloud. For no one in Kangvi, a village of 200-odd inhabitants in Gujarat, had even been to college. And like many of their brothers in India's rural heartland, ...

With no fodder or water for the cattle, the drought this year has forced farmers to resort to distress sale of their cattle.