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Sascha Wil­son

As Los Iros farm­ers await as­sis­tance from the Gov­ern­ment, they con­tin­ued to try to sal­vage and har­vest their crops yes­ter­day, de­spite a mas­sive land move­ment that has cut off ve­hi­cle ac­cess to their gar­dens.

Kishore Ra­goo­bar spent most of the day mak­ing two-mile trips back and forth from his gar­den off Roy­al En­gi­neer­ing Road, com­mon­ly called RE Road, to get his toma­toes to the mar­kets and cus­tomers in Debe, Pe­nal and Bar­rack­pore.