“Our reach is limited to five blocks in the Sunderbans. They sell their products in the local wholesale markets from where the produce is sold in Calcutta and other places. But the lockdown has shut most wholesale markets. Say a farmer produces 200 quintals of ladies’ fingers, he can sell only a minuscule portion in the retail market. Lakhs from the Sunderbans embark on short journeys on packed suburban trains to and from Calcutta, where they work as domestic help or sell vegetables at markets.

Source: The Telegraph April 16, 2020 21:45 UTC