Farmers away to Delhi, kin in Punjab engage in harvest

Parvesh Sharma

Tribune News Service

Sangrur, April 1

The agitation of farmers against the farm laws has brought a major change in the harvest season, with educated youths, including postgraduates and graduates, heading to fields to harvest the crop.

“I will not attend my IELTS classes for next 20 days as I need to supervise the harvest of our wheat crop on 16 acres. My father has been in Delhi since the agitation began,” said Bhupinder Singh, a youngster.

Ready for bigger role

Women in almost all villages are ready to play a bigger role in harvest this time. We do not want to call back our male members from the protest at Delhi borders. — Balbir Kaur, Sangrur resident

Many educated women have already started the manual harvest. “Since I did not get leave, today both my daughters, Maninder Kaur and Parmjit Kaur, who are law graduates, along with labourers harvested wheat on our one and half acres in our native Bhutal Kalan village,” said a government employee.