PHOTOS: Summer of discontent for farmers in India

As agrarian protests simmer across multiple states in India, a look the novel ways farmers are expressing discontent.

Updated on: Jun 09, 2017 10:53 AM IST

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Angry farmers throw ing onions and other vegetables on the road during a protest at Shajapur, MP. Farmers in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra have been protesting over a variety of concerns since June 01, 2017 with no relief despite the 2016 harvest figures showing a year-on-year increase according to the Ministry of Agriculture. These protests stem from demands for an increased minimum support price not being met and are compounded by louder calls for loan waivers as promised by the BJP government to farmer in the state of Uttar Pradesh in April. (PTI)

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Farmers in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh have been demanding better prices for their produce during a 10-day protest in June. Police firing on the sixth day resulted in the death of six farmers and retaliatory blockades and vehicle burning. (Mujeeb faruqui/ht photo)

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A farmer transports harvested paddy on a buffalo cart through flood waters in Mayong, Assam in June. IMD has predicted near normal monsoons for the year in India. (Biju Boro/AFP)

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Villagers gather vegetables dumped on the road by farmers during a protest in Aurangabad, Maharashtra in June. Farmers in the state have so far rejected Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s offer for a waiver by October and rejected the plan for making sales below the support price illegal, demanding expedited resolution. (ht photos)

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Farmers on strike spill milk from canisters in protest against the government of Maharashtra in Aurangabad in June. (ht photos)

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Palanichamy, a farmer from Tamil Nadu holds the skulls of those who allegedly committed suicide back home during the protest demanding aid from government in New Delhi, in May. The farmers’ novel means of protest garnered widespread attention in the media. (Ravi Choudhary/HT PHOTO)

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Workers sit idle on the second day of a farmers' strike at Byculla vegetable market, in Mumbai in June. (Bhushan Koyande/ht photo)

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Hundreds of farmers rally for a loan waiver disrupting traffic in Mumbai, Maharashtra in May. (Bhushan Koyande/ht photo)

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Farmers stage a protest in the run-up to the 2017 Punjab assembly elections in Bhatinda. The farmers’ unions have been raising the issue of suicides and compensation to farmers for cotton crop loss. Earlier this year Punjab Chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh promised a waiver of all farm debt -including that of agricultural labourers with or without the centre’s help as part of his election promises. (PTI)

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Police officials use force to disperse an aggressive rally of Youth Congress supporters and members demanding waiver of farmers' loans near the state assembly, in Jaipur, Rajasthan in May. (himanshu vyas/ht photo)

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A farmer attends a protest against what they say is India's plan to allow genetically modified (GM) mustard crop . Still under consideration for approval, the indigenously developed mustard variant would be the second genetically modified crop passed by Indian lawmakers since BT cotton 15 years ago. (Adnan Abidi/reuters)