Maharashtra farmer burns 600 sacks of onions after getting Re 1/kg offer

In our 'Get Real India' segment, watch this story about how a farmer in Maharashtra's Chintaraj village in Dharashiv district set his entire onion stock of six hundred sacks on fire after traders offered a price of just one rupee per kilo for the produce. 

The farmer had spent over eighty thousand rupees per acre for cultivation and had previously sold seventy sacks of onions for only four thousand rupees. The incident reflects the widespread resentment among farmers in the Marathwada region, who are facing a double blow of crashing crop prices and unseasonal rains.