India: Indian farmers from Uttar Pradesh join protest by handing out free potatoes

The UP farmers distributed free potatoes to the public in protest against the steeply falling prices of the vegetable in Agra. 

Aamir, a leader of the potato farmers, said: "The government wants us to store our crop in cold storage. But the truth is that the price our crop fetches us is way less than the cost of keeping them in cold storage."Yuduvir Singh, another farmer from Agra, said, "We have been facing a loss for the last 3 years. Anyway we have to throw away our crops — so instead of throwing it away at home, we are disposing of them here to make the government understand how dire our situation has become."