Farmers gift urea bag to fellow farmer on birthday to protest fertiliser shortage

In Satrajupalli village, Rajanna-Sircilla district, farmers staged a unique protest on Friday by gifting a urea bag to Maru Kishan Reddy, a fellow farmer, on his birthday. This gesture aimed to highlight the ongoing fertiliser shortage in Telangana.

Rajanna-Sircilla: In a unique form of protest, farmers presented a urea bag as a birthday gift to a fellow farmer in Satrajupalli village of Vemulawada mandal on Friday.

The farmer, Maru Kishan Reddy, was celebrating his birthday when other farmers and friends gifted him a urea bag to highlight the fertiliser shortage in the state.

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They said the gift symbolised the scarcity, as currently only one bag of urea is being allotted to each farmer due to the ongoing shortfall.