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Indian farmers strike and protest to demand guaranteed crop prices
Members of various trade unions and opposition political parties gather in support of countrywide rural strike called by farmers in Hyderabad, India, February 16, 2024

FARMERS blocked highways and held demonstrations in many rural areas in northern India today to protest over a range of grievances.

Tens of thousands of other farmers also continued to march toward the capital in tractors and wagons.

Farmers in the northern states of Haryana and Punjab held sit-ins near toll plazas on major highways in the strike, supported by most trade unions. 

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