Realizing that there was a demand for sweet pumpkin in the Mumbai market, most of the farmers in Betur village of the taluk had grown sweet pumpkin. 

The tragedy is that after seeing the price of sweet pumpkin fall in the Mumbai market, the farmer became helpless. Thus, he destroyed the crop.

Farmer Manjunath of Beturu village   had grown sweet pumpkin on his one acre of land by spending Rs 40,000. The farmer had also reaped a golden harvest. However, the price has suddenly fallen. Since the price of Rs 1.50 per kg of pumpkin was fixed, farmer Manjunath realized that the money he had invested was not worth it and destroyed the crop grown on one acre with a tractor.

  Farmer Manjunath said, "all the farmers together have grown sweet pumpkin on a total of 35 to 40 acres. The middlemen from Mumbai have asked for the crop at a price of Rs 1.50  to 2. However, it costs us Rs 5,000 to harvest the crop. We have spent Rs 35 to 40,000 on the crop. If the price reaches Rs 4 to 5, the wages spent on farming will be recovered. We don't have money to pay wages. In this case, small farmers will not be able to pay".

 "We grew sweet pumpkin, they asked for Rs 1.50 per kg of pumpkin, we bought it and grew it after paying off the loan. Now we are in a situation where we are drinking poison. We should return the money to the borrowers.   I have planted pumpkin on my one and a half acres. I spent Rs 40,000 per acre. the government needs to intervene and announce compensation and support the farmers",    farmer Hanumanthappa appealed.

Source - https://ibcworldnews.com