India’s farmers feed produce to animals as Covid-19 lockdown halts deliveries
India relies on truckers to move goods from the countryside and ports to its cities, but Covid-19 has made many drivers flee to their villages
28 March 2020 - 08:49
Kanur — A three-week lockdown in India aimed at stopping the coronavirus is preventing perishables from reaching teeming cities, pushing up prices and forcing some farmers to feed their ripening produce to their animals instead.
The breakdown in the supply chain is especially hurting hundreds of millions of rural and urban poor in the world's second-most populous country, which is facing a spike of coronavirus cases: more than 700 infections and 17 deaths as of Friday...
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