A farmer in a pensive mood following an unexpected bout of rain at the grain market in Sangrur on April 16, 2015
A farmer prays to the heavens in a field in Patiala on April 16, 2015. Another unexpected bout of rain destroyed standing crops in several parts of the state
A farmer taking stock of the damage suffered due to an unexpected bout of rain in Amritsar on April 16, 2015
A farmer taking stock of the damage suffered due to an unexpected bout of rain in Amritsar on April 16, 2015.
A worker clears water from the sheet covering wheat at Dana Mandi in Ludhiana.
Unseasonal rains add to farmers’ woes. With torrential rain already causing much misery for farmers thus far and destroying crops, farmers now pray for a dry spell to harvest their almost ready wheat crop at Paragpur village in Jalandhar
Rains sends people scurrying to save the grains from the rain at Dana Mandi, near Gill Road in Ludhiana
Sacks of wheat get drenched in the grain market as an unexpected bout of rain catches many unguarded in Hisar on April 16, 2015
Wheat kept in the open is exposed to the rain as an unexpected downpour catches authorities unguarded in Hisar on April 16, 2015
Workers engaged in drying wheat after rain hit the city at Bhagtanwala grain market in Amritsar on April 15. 2015