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 monthslong sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them.
Underlining the organized 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 view. They are on track to gather a record 109 million tons this year, posing more headaches for a government that some experts say underestimated the strength of rural anger.
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