Double whammy for Kerala farmers: Rain and lockdown affects vegetable cultivation

Onam festival is just two weeks away but a pall of gloom prevails in the vegetable bowl of Kerala. Putting behind the havoc wrought by two consecutive floods that ravaged the state, the vegetable farmers of #Munnar had pinned their hopes on the Onam market to recover from the debt trap. But the #COVID19 induced lockdown and monsoon fury have shattered their hopes.